Epi-Insight, Volume 24, 2023
Volume 24, Issue 9, December 2023
This issue contains
- World AIDS Day 2023: including latest HIV data from Ireland
- Multi-sectoral Incident Management Team convened to investigate antimicrobial resistant shigella infection in Ireland, 2023
- New HSE-HPSC data hub to provide comprehensive overview of winter respiratory viruses
- Successful 'Lab for Epi' training day held in the Public Health Laboratory, Dublin
- Public Health Laboratory, Dublin: A User Guide
- European Public Health Conference, November 2023
- Influenza Vaccine for Health Care Workers and Residents in Long-Term/Residential Care Facilities 2022-2023 Season
- Epi Insight thanks all our reviewers for supporting us during 2023
- Eurosurveillance 2024: Editors inviting submissions on changing urban enviornments
- Chief Medical Officer (CMO) visits HPSC and HSE Heath Protection Staff
- Latest reports, publications and articles
Volume 24, Issue 8, November 2023
This issue contains
- European Antibiotic Awareness Day – 18th November 2023
- HSE Public Health: Health Protection Conference, 2023
- The public health impact on Gaza of the Israel-Hamas armed conflict
- EPIET fellows at HPSC
- Data protection at HPSC
- HRB funding awarded to improve detection of infections acquired abroad
- Cryptosporidiosis reported in returning travellers
- Latest reports, publications and articles
Volume 24, Issue 7, October 2023
This issue contains
- National SARS-CoV-2 Whole Genome Sequencing Programme in Ireland
- Measles outbreak in Ireland, August 2023
- Eliminating hepatitis B and C in Ireland
- Botulism outbreak linked to restaraunt in Bordeaux, France
- Case definition update: Syphilis and congenital and neonatal syphilis
- Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) Surveillance Update
- HPSC releases updated version of COVID-19 datahub
- Visit from Public Health Agency of Canada and Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada
- Call for ECDC Fellowship Programme 2024-2026 applications
- Latest reports, publications and articles
Volume 24, Issue 6, June 2023
This issue contains
- Antimicrobial resistant typhoid fever in Ireland
- Marking two years of the National Wastewater Surveillance Programme
- Faculty of Public Health Medicine Summer Scientific Meeting 2023
- Measles cases require urgent notification
- Severe Acute Respiratory Infection epidemiologists visit HPSC - 18 May 2023
- Public Health impact of current conflict in Sudan
- Be tick aware: protect against Lyme disease
- World Health Organization lifts global public health emergency for COVID-19 and mpox but retains polio measures
- Stigma webinar from ECDC, 14th June
- Latest reports, publications and articles
This issue contains
- Report on the Epidemiology of COVID-19 in Ireland during the 2022-2023 Winter Season
- Increased Sexually Transmitted Infection notifications in Ireland since the COVID-19 pandemic
- Monitoring HIV community testing in Ireland
- First reported cases of dengue due to local transmission by mosquitoes in Ibiza
- National Syphilis Outbreak Control Team, Update March 2023
- Hepatitis A and B vaccination in gbMSM in Ireland: findings from the European MSM Internet Survey 2017 (EMIS-2017)
- Time to deliver zero malaria
- Updated COVID-19 guidance published
- ESCAIDE 2023 - Call for abstracts open until 15 May
- Latest reports, publications and articles
Volume 24, Issue 4, April 2023
This issue contains
- World Health Day 2023
- Epidemiology of Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI) 2022-2023 season
- Polio - International Update and Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) surveillance
- Epidemiological characteristics of confirmed mpox cases in Ireland; May 2022 to February 2023
- Point prevalence survey (PPS) of healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial use in acute hospitals in Ireland, May 2023
- National Serosurveillance Programme launch new animation
- After the earthquakes: Türkiye and Syria face ongoing threats to public health
- Adeno-Associated Virus 2 and Human Adenovirus F41 in Wastewater during Outbreak of Severe Acute Hepatitis in Children, Ireland
- Immunocompromise among vaccinated versus unvaccinated COVID-19 cases admitted to critical care in Ireland, July to October 2021
- Latest reports, publications and articles
Volume 24, Issue 3, March 2023
This issue contains
- Outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium on the island of Ireland declared over
- Latest update on the 2022-2023 upsurge in invasive Group A streptococcus (iGAS) infections in Ireland
- Invasive Meningococcal Disease case definition - guidance note on meningococcal infection of the conjunctiva
- Marburg Virus Disease - First ever outbreak reported in Equatorial Guinea
- UNITED4Surveillance
- ECDC webinar for GPs and nurses - Improving testing for HIV and related co-infections in General Practice, 21 March - book your place
- Mpox cases in Ireland and changes to reporting
- Epi Insight Call for articles
- Opportunities in HPSC
- Latest reports, publications and articles
Volume 24, Issue 2, February 2023
This issue contains
- Pregnant and Post-Partum women admitted to Intensive Care with confirmed COVID-19 infection - 1st March 2020 to 31st December 2022
- Importance of timely notification of infectious diseases in Ireland
- Update on the 2022-2023 upsurge in invasive Group A streptococcus (iGAS) infections in Ireland
- Postcard from the field: Supporting the Greater Horn of Africa Drought and Food Insecurity Emergency Response
- EPIET and EUPHEM fellows training in Ireland and abroad
- Outbreak of Ebola virus disease due to Sudan ebolavirus in Uganda declared over
- Opportunities in HPSC
- Latest reports, publications and articles
Volume 24, Issue 1, January 2023
This issue contains
- Dr John Cuddihy takes up post as Interim National Director for Public Health
- Impact and costs of surge of external information requests on workload and well-being of the Health Protection Surveillance Centre staff during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ireland, 2020 to 2021
- Ùpdate on invasive Group A Streptococcal disease in Ireland
- Viral Haemorrhagic Fever guidance updated
- Faculty of Public Health Medicine Winter Scientific Meeting 2022
- ESCAIDE 2022 - Europe's leading scientific conference on applied infectious disease epidemiology
- SEU poster wins third place at Faculty of Public Health Medicine Winter Scientific Meeting
- Jacqueline Horgan Bronze Medal awarded to Dr Louise Marron
- Chlamydia and Gonorrhoea case definitions updated
- Mpox is the new recommended term for monkeypox
- Latest reports, publications and articles
Last updated: 6 November 2023