Date: April 15, 2022
Published: April 15, 2022 Parents and carers of young children are urged to check and make sure that they do not have Kinder Egg products at home. The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) issued an extended food alert on Friday 8th April concerning the reca...
Date: April 14, 2022
Published: April 14, 2022 Influenza activity in the community is decreasing. The number of notified cases reported continued to decrease during week 14 2022 but influenza viruses are still circulating in Ireland. People in at-risk groups are urged to get vacci...
Date: April 10, 2022
Published: April 10, 2022 The HSE-Health Protection Surveillance Centre is currently recruiting four Grade IV posts and an Assistant IT Manager GVII. We are expanding our team to include four permanent Grade IV posts. For more information on the role and how t...
Date: April 8, 2022
Published: April 8, 2022 The latest weekly report on COVID-19 cases in Ireland is now available here. Although PCR positive confirmed cases notified on the Computerised Infectious Disease Reporting System (CIDR), and antigen positive cases have decreased compa...
Date: April 7, 2022
Published: April 7, 2022 People in at-risk groups are urged to get vaccinated against influenza, as the number of reported cases in Ireland remains high (week 13 2022). Influenza viruses continue to circulate in the community in Ireland. The latest influenza s...
Date: April 7, 2022
Published: April 7, 2022 The HSE, HPSC and FSAI have been working closely to investigate an outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium. A large, multi-disciplinary outbreak control team which is investigating this outbreak, is following up confirmed cases, and is acti...
Date: April 6, 2022
Published: April 6, 2022 During the first complete year (March 2020 to March 2021) of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ireland, 223,708 COVID-19 cases were reported. Almost 1 in 20 people in Ireland were diagnosed with COVID-19 during this time period and the country...
Date: April 4, 2022
Published: April 4, 2022 The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) has advised that a food recall by Ferrero of some Kinder Surprise chocolate products is underway due to a link with a food poisoning outbreak of Salmonella. The FSAI, together with the Health...
Date: April 3, 2022
Published: April 6, 2022 The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) has advised that Ferrero is recalling additional Kinder products due to the possible presence of Salmonella. Point-of-sale recall notices will be displayed in stores supplied with the implica...
Date: April 2, 2022
Published: April 30, 2022 Every year European Immunisation Week brings together partners and collaborators across the WHO European Region to focus on the importance of vaccines to protect people of all ages and backgrounds against vaccine-preventable diseases,...
Date: March 24, 2022
Published: March 24, 2022 Each year, World Tuberculosis (TB) Day is one of the global public health campaigns observed by the World Health Organization (WHO), and has as its core aim, the raising, and maintaining of public awareness of TB, and its devastating...
Date: March 24, 2022
Published: March 24, 2022 People in at-risk groups are urged to get vaccinated against influenza, as the number of reported cases in Ireland remains high (week 11). Given the increases in most influenza surveillance indicators over the past six weeks, HPSC con...