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News Archives 2008

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Health Protection Report Vol 2 No 34 (22 August 2008)

• Patients exposed to chickenpox by infected healthcare workers
  
  
• S. Agona PT39: increase in new salmonella strain in UK and Ireland (update 2)
  
  
• Consultation on application of ICRP Recommendations in the UK
  

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Health Protection Report Vol 2 No 33 (8 August 2008)

• S. Agona PT39: increase in new salmonella strain in UK and Ireland – an update
  
  
• Accelerated publication schedule for MRSA bacteraemia data
  
  
• Diagnosis and management of PVL-SA infections in England and Wales – an update
  

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Health Protection Report Vol 2 No 32 (8 August 2008)

• MMR catch-up programme announced

• Salmonella Enteritidis PT12 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland: an update
  

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Health Protection Report Vol 2 No 31 (1 August 2008)

• Salmonella Agona PT 39: increase in new salmonella strain in UK and Ireland

• Suspected outbreak of Salmonella Enteritidis phage type 12 infections in England and Wales
  

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Health Protection Report Vol 2 No 30 (25 July 2008)

• Nanotoxicology research centre to be established at Chilton
  

• Fifth report on antimicrobial resistance
  

• Pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (PPV) uptake in over-65-year-olds
  

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Health Protection Report Vol 2 No 29 (18 July 2008)

• Third annual report on healthcare associated infections

• Sexually transmitted infections and young people in 2007

• Outbreak of cryptosporidiosis associated with a water contamination incident in the East Midlands

• Imported case of Marburg haemorrhagic fever in the Netherlands
  

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Health Protection Report Vol 2 No 28 (11 July 2008)

• Recent trends in selected gastrointestinal infections

• Corrigendum: COVER data for January to March 2008
  

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Health Protection Report Vol 2 No 27 (4 July 2008)

• Updated guidance on the management of STI outbreaks and incidents

• Head lice infection control advice
  

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Health Protection Report Vol 2 No 26 (27 June 2008)

• £3.5million research programme to combat the threat of chemical terrorism

• New HPA guidance on post-flooding precautions

• Cryptosporidium contamination incident in East Midlands
  

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Health Protection Report Vol 2 No 25 (20 June 2008)

• Confirmed measles cases in England and Wales – an update to end-May 2008

• Group A streptococcal infections: update on seasonal activity, 2007/08

• HPA reiterates need for vigilance on Community MRSA
  

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Health Protection Report Vol 2 No 24 (13 June 2008)

• The prevention and control of air travel associated tuberculosis

• Epidemiological investigation of Hepatitis E on a cruise ship (update 3)
  

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Health Protection Report Vol 2 No 23 (6 June 2008)

• UK outbreak of H7N7 avian influenza

• Children at two schools in south east England offered hepatitis A vaccination
  

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Health Protection Report Vol 2 No 22 (30 May 2008)

• Monitoring the uptake of chlamydia screening

• HPA chemical and environmental hazards conference 2008
  

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Health Protection Report Vol 2 No 21 (23 May 2008)

• Second UK-wide, community-based infectious intestinal disease study

• HPA report on health effects of magnetic resonance imaging

• Confirmed measles cases in England and Wales – an update

• EBLV-2 in a Daubenton’s bat held in captivity for nine months
  

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Health Protection Report Vol 2 No 20 (16 May 2008)

• Epidemiological investigation of Hepatitis E on a cruise ship (update 2)

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Health Protection Report Vol 2 No 19 (9 May 2008)

• Death in a child infected with toxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae in London

• Update on the investigation of Hepatitis E on a cruise ship

• Reminder on vaccination requirements for those working with imported animals
  

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Health Protection Report Vol 2 No 18 (2 May 2008)

• An imported case of canine rabies in a quarantine centre in London:
  immediate public health management of the incident, April 2008
  

• Outbreak of measles in Cornwall
  

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Health Protection Report Vol 2 No 17 (25 April 2008)

• Malaria imported into the United Kingdom in 2007: implications for those advising travellers

• France declares loss of rabies free status: implications for British travellers

• Mandatory MRSA bacteraemia and C. difficile infection data published
  
  

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Health Protection Report Vol 2 No 16 (18 April 2008)

• Influenza B outbreaks in closed settings continue to be reported
  to the HPA's Centre for Infections

• Health Protection Matters, Spring 2008

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Health Protection Report Vol 2 No 15 (11 April 2008)

• Group A streptococcal infections: 2007/08 seasonal update

• Yorkshire and the Humber scarlet fever update

• Toxigenic Corynebacterium ulcerans isolated in Greater Manchester

• Revised malaria prevention guidelines for travellers to Goa, India

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Health Protection Report Vol 2 No 14 (4 April 2008)

• High-level azithromycin resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae

• Hepatitis E in passengers on a cruise ship

• Guidance on the application of dose coefficients for the embryo, fetus and the breastfed infant in dose assessments for members of the public

• World Health Day

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Health Protection Report Vol 2 No 13 (20 March 2008)

• Continuing high levels of HIV diagnoses in men who have sex with men: HIV and AIDS in the United Kingdom - data to the end of December 2007

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Health Protection Report Vol 2 No 12 (20 March 2008)

• Enteric fever study aids targeting of health protection advice
  
• HPA consultation on children's environmental health strategy
  
• World TB day
  
• UK national knowledge on TB week

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Health Protection Report Vol 2 No 11 (14 March 2008)

• National increase in new salmonella strain

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Health Protection Report Vol 2 No 10 (7 March 2008)

• Canine rabies in France

• Yellow fever in south America - travel advice update

• Seasonal influenza and resistance to oseltamivir in Influenza A(H1N1) viruses - an update

• HPA consultation on its advice on solid radioactive waste disposal

• HPA website relaunch

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Health Protection Report Vol 2 No 9 (29 February 2008)

• Outbreak of infection with Salmonella Anatum in England, Wales and Scotland, ongoing analytical study

• ONS data on healthcare associated infection mortality
  

• HPA website relaunch
  

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Health Protection Report Vol 2 No 8 (22 February 2008)

• Clostridium difficile infection: how to deal with the problem – a board to ward approach

• Report on a national outbreak of Vero cytotoxin-producing E. coli O157

• Confirmed measles, mumps and rubella cases in 2007: England and Wales

• Department of Health good practice guide: Genitourinary medicine: 48-hour access

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Health Protection Report Vol 2 No 7 (15 February 2008)

• Surveillance of newly-acquired Hepatitis C in men who have sex with men

• Updated guidance on the management of outbreaks of foodborne illness

• HPA report on climate change and health

• Yellow fever in Brazil and Paraguay: changes to vaccine recommendations

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Health Protection Report Vol 2 No 6 (8 February 2008)

• Norovirus update February 2008

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Health Protection Report Vol 2 No 5 (1 February 2008)

• Publication of MRSA bacteraemia and Clostridium difficile infection data

• Emergence of resistance to oseltamivir among influenza A(H1N1) viruses in Europe

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Health Protection Report Vol 2 No 4 (25 January 2008)

• Advice to pregnant women during the lambing season

• Listeriosis in England and Wales, 2007

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Health Protection Report Vol 2 No 3 (18 January 2008)

• Salmonella Anatum in England, Wales, and Scotland

• Emergence of reduced susceptibility to metronidazole in Clostridium difficile

• Developments to the HCAI data capture system

• Guidance on the diagnosis and management of PVL-associated Staphylococcus aureus infections

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Health Protection Report Vol 2 No 2 (11 January 2008)

• Confirmed H5N1 avian influenza in wild swans in Dorset

• Use of antiviral drugs for influenza

• Norovirus update January 2008

• Group A streptococcal infections in maternity units

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Health Protection Report Vol 2 No 1 (4 January 2008)

• EFSA-ECDC annual report on animal infections transmissible to humans in Europe

• Training fellowships for intervention epidemiology in Europe

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