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• HPA East Midlands issues hand washing reminder ahead of petting farm season  Release date: 4 April 2012
  Ahead of the petting farm season, the HPA is reminding people, especially those with responsibility for young children, to enjoy their farm visits safely by ensuring good hand hygiene after touching farm animals or their surroundings.
  Added/updated: 4 April 2012
  
• HPA releases new regional figures for World TB Day  Release date: 23 March 2012
  The number of cases of tuberculosis (TB) diagnosed in the East Midlands has increased slightly according to figures out today from the Health Protection Agency (HPA). Provisional figures show that there were 488 cases of Tuberculosis (TB) reported in the East Midlands in 2011 compared to 486 cases in 2010.
  Added/updated: 23 March 2012
  
• How aware is your Valentine?  Release date: 10 February 2012
  Valentine's Day isn't the only time of year that people are at risk of sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
  Added/updated: 10 February 2012
  
• Whooping Cough Cases Increase in East Midlands  Release date: 5 January 2012
  Cases highlight importance of vaccine uptake and awareness of signs and symptoms.
  Added/updated: 9 January 2012
  
• The Twelve Tips of Christmas  Release date: 16 December 2011
  The Health Protection Agency East Midlands has produced ‘The 12 tips of Christmas Food’ to reduce the risk of food-related infection during the festive season.
  Added/updated: 16 December 2011
  
• HPA urges testing for HIV in the East Midlands  Release date: 29 November 2011
  The Health Protection Agency (HPA) East Midlands is reminding people of the importance of HIV testing ahead of World AIDS Day on 1 December.
  Added/updated: 30 November 2011
  
• What people can do to avoid spreading the “winter vomiting” bug  Release date: 11 November 2011
  The Health Protection Agency (HPA) East Midlands is offering advice on how to avoid the “winter vomiting” bug norovirus and prevent the infection spreading to other people.
  Added/updated: 14 November 2011
  
• "At risk" groups urged to get vaccinated before flu starts circulating widely  Release date: 10 November 2011
  The Health Protection Agency East Midlands (HPA) is today reminding all those in a clinical “at risk” group, who have been invited for flu vaccination by their GP and who have not yet received it, to take up the offer.
  Added/updated: 14 November 2011
  
• Wild mushroom caution urged by poisons specialists  Release date: 16 September 2011
  Wild food enthusiasts are being urged to take extra care when picking mushrooms, by the Health Protection Agency’s poisons experts.
  Added/updated: 16 September 2011
  
• New STI diagnoses decline in region  Release date: 15 June 2011
  New figures released today by the Health Protection Agency (HPA) show that the number of new STI diagnoses has declined slightly in the region. In the East Midlands the overall number of new STI’s diagnosed in sexual health clinics across the region and community based Chlamydia testing declined by 3% to 30,119 in 2010, compared to the previous year’s total of 31,099 in 2009.
  Added/updated: 15 June 2011
  
• HPA confirms measles cases until end of April 2011  Release date: 27 May 2011
  334 laboratory confirmed cases of measles have been reported in England and Wales to the Health Protection Agency up to the end of April 2011, compared to a provisional total of 374 cases for the whole of 2010.
  Added/updated: 7 June 2011
  
• HPA East Midlands message for European Immunisation Week is: “Vaccines work. Use them to prevent disease and protect life”  Release date: 20 April 2011
  Help us eliminate measles and rubella (German measles) by 2015. That’s one message from the Health Protection Agency (HPA) East Midlands for European Immunisation Week that begins on Saturday 23 April.
  Added/updated: 4 May 2011
  
• Tick Lyme Disease off your holiday list  Release date: 18 April 2011
  The Health Protection Agency (HPA) in the East Midlands is warning people to take extra care this spring and early summer when visiting grassy or woodland areas where ticks may be present. Ticks can carry Lyme disease which may be transmitted to humans through tick bites.
  Added/updated: 18 April 2011
  
• Have a safe Easter holiday  Release date: 13 April 2011
  The Health Protection Agency East Midlands is reminding people across the region to take extra care this Easter and follow a few basic steps to stay safe and healthy.
  Added/updated: 13 April 2011
  
• HPR reminds parents of importance of MMR  Release date: 12 April 2011
  As we approach the time of year when many children are travelling on school trips and family holidays, the Health Protection Agency East Midlands is urging parents to protect their children against measles by ensuring they have been immunised with two doses of MMR following an increase in cases in children and young adults over the last month.
  Added/updated: 14 April 2011
  
• Pertussis in Derbyshire  Release date: 6 April 2011
  The Health Protection Agency East Midlands and NHS Derbyshire County is reminding people of the signs and symptoms of Pertussis (Whooping Cough) after four cases in the Ripley area of Derbyshire have been confirmed.
  Added/updated: 6 April 2011
  
• HPA East Midlands challenges myths around TB  Release date: 23 March 2011
  546 cases of TB were diagnosed in the East Midlands during 2009 and to mark World TB day on March 24th, the Health Protection Agency (HPA) East Midlands wants to challenge the myths around TB and promote a better understanding of the disease.
  Added/updated: 23 March 2011
  
• How aware is your Valentine?  Release date: 11 February 2011
  Lovers across the region are being reminded of the importance of safe sex in the run up to Valentine’s Day, following a rise in cases of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) across the region.
  Added/updated: 11 February 2011
  
• The twelve tips of Christmas  Release date: 22 December 2010
  The Health Protection Agency East Midlands has produced ‘The 12 tips of Christmas Food’ to reduce the risk of food-related infection during the festive season.
  Added/updated: 22 December 2010
  
• Don't let 'winter vomiting' spoil Christmas  Release date: 9 December 2010
  The Health Protection Agency (HPA) East Midlands is warning residents not to let winter vomiting spoil the Christmas festivities, for you or for others. As the continuing cold spell increases there is a high risk of bugs such as norovirus spreading in the community.
  Added/updated: 14 December 2010
  
• Don't forget travel health this winter  Release date: 7 December 2010
  The Health Protection Agency (HPA) East Midlands is reminding people who are preparing to escape to exotic climates this winter to seek health advice before travelling and to take any pre-travel medication that is recommended for the countries that they propose to visit.
  Added/updated: 7 December 2010
  
• HPA East Midlands reminds of the importance of HIV testing  Release date: 26 November 2010
  According to figures released by the Health Protection Agency (HPA) today, more people accessed HIV care in the East Midlands in 2009 than in 2008.
  Added/updated: 30 November 2010
  
• TB remains a concern in East Midlands  Release date: 5 November 2010
  The number of cases of tuberculosis (TB) diagnosed in the East Midlands in 2009 increased slightly according to a report released today by the Health Protection Agency (HPA).
  Added/updated: 5 November 2010
  
• Avoiding the 'yuk' factor on Global Handwashing Day  Release date: 15 October 2010
  Handwashing is one of the simplest ways of preventing illnesses such as food poisoning and flu. On Global Handwashing Day (October 15th 2010) the Health Protection Agency (HPA) wants to remind people to soap up and remove bugs to protect both their health and that of others.
  Added/updated: 18 October 2010
  
• HAJJ travellers reminded to take travel advice before they leave  Release date: 15 October 2010
  The Health Protection Agency (HPA) wants to remind UK travellers going to Makkah (Mecca) for the Hajj pilgrimage this year to seek health advice before making the journey so that they will enjoy a healthy trip.
  Added/updated: 15 October 2010
  
• October - flu season and HPA flu surveillance begins  Release date: 8 October 2010
  The beginning of October marks the start of the annual ‘flu season’ which will continue through to April 2011. Flu epidemics usually occur in the colder months of the year but, as seen in the 2009 pandemic, they can occur in other months too.
  Added/updated: 15 October 2010
  
• Microbiology confirms a bean sprout link with Salmonella Bareilly cases  Release date: 7 October 2010
  Microbiologists at the Health Protection Agency’s Centre for Infections (CFI) in Colindale have confirmed the link between contaminated bean sprouts and 141 cases of Salmonella Bareilly in the UK.
  Added/updated: 8 October 2010
  
• New East Midlands hazmed service  Release date: 5 October 2010
  The Health Protection Agency (HPA) East Midlands working alongside the East Midlands HART (Hazardous Area Response Team) have today launched a new East Midlands Ambulance HAZMED service.
  Added/updated: 18 October 2010
  
• Girls get protected against HPV  Release date: 29 September 2010
  The Health Protection Agency (HPA) in the East Midlands is urging young girls to take up the offer of vaccination against human papillomavirus (HPV) types 16 and 18, the strains that cause over 70% of cervical cancers.
  Added/updated: 29 September 2010
  
• Probable Meningitis Death in Daventry Northamptonshire  Release date: 21 September 2010
  We can confirm that a student at Campion School, near Daventry, sadly passed away this weekend as a result of probable pneumococcal meningitis.
  Added/updated: 21 September 2010
  
• HPA advice on heating oil leaks  Release date: 14 September 2010
  ADVICE on the potential health effects in the event of a domestic heating oil leak comes under the spotlight at the agency’s annual conference – Health Protection 2010 – at the University of Warwick today (Wednesday).
  Added/updated: 30 September 2010
  
• STIs on the increase in over 50s  Release date: 12 September 2010
  To coincide with Sexual Health Week (13th-17th September) Health Protection Agency (HPA) East Midlands is urging people over the age of 50 to look after their sexual health.
  Added/updated: 13 September 2010
  
• Sample a session  Release date: 26 August 2010
  The Health Protection Agency (HPA) in the East Midlands is to hold three food, water and environmental microbiology sampling sessions for Environmental Health Practitioners in counties across the region this autumn.
  Added/updated: 26 August 2010
  
• Young women in region most at risk from STIs  Release date: 25 August 2010
  A report released today by the Health Protection Agency (HPA) has shown that 15 to 24 year olds, particularly young women, continue to be the group most affected by sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the UK. Last year around two thirds of new STI diagnoses seen in women were in those under 25.
  Added/updated: 26 August 2010
  
• HPA advice on typhoid for travellers  Release date: 17 August 2010
  Experts at the Health Protection Agency (HPA) have produced a leaflet urging travellers to the Indian subcontinent to make sure they are vaccinated against typhoid.
  Added/updated: 17 August 2010
  
• Meningococcal disease in Kegworth  Release date: 22 June 2010
  Two children at Handkerchief Nursery in Kegworth have been treated for meningococcal disease after it was confirmed in one of the cases and suspected in the other.
  Added/updated: 22 June 2010
  
• “Simple steps” can avoid food poisoning  Release date: 4 June 2010
  Up to one million cases of food-borne illness are reported each year in the UK. Approximately 20,000 people are hospitalised and 500 die from these diseases.
  Added/updated: 7 June 2010
  
• HPA East Midlands encourages hepatitis C testing  Release date: 21 May 2010
  According to the latest hepatitis C report released by the Health Protection Agency, the East Midlands region has seen a 6.1% decrease in laboratory confirmed cases of hepatitis C.
  Added/updated: 21 May 2010
  
• Suspected Meningitis in Mawsley, Northampton  Release date: 26 April 2010
  The Health Protection Agency can confirm that there is one suspected case of meningococcal meningitis in the Mawsley area of Northampton.
  Added/updated: 27 April 2010
  
• Have a Safe Easter Holiday  Release date: 31 March 2010
  The Health Protection Agency East Midlands (HPA EM) is reminding people across the region to take extra care this Easter and follow a few basic steps to stay safe and healthy.
  Added/updated: 31 March 2010
  
• HPA releases new regional figures for world TB day  Release date: 17 March 2010
  The number of cases of tuberculosis (TB) diagnosed in the East Midlands is increasing according to figures out today from the Health Protection Agency (HPA).
  Added/updated: 17 March 2010
  
• Second Screening for TB in Corby School  Release date: 3 February 2010
  Press release on second screening for TB in Corby school.
  Added/updated: 10 February 2010
  
• Health Protection Agency prepares children to fight back  Release date: 20 January 2010
  The Health Protection Agency East Midlands has armed every school in the region with an innovative teaching pack ‘e-Bug’ to help students fight back against infections such as Swine flu and Norovirus.
  Added/updated: 20 January 2010
  
• Meningitis in Braunstone, Leicester  Release date: 19 January 2010
  The Health Protection Agency can confirm there has been one confirmed case and one probable case of meningococcal meningitis in the Braunstone area of Leicester.
  Added/updated: 19 January 2010