Date: January 9, 2019
Published: January 9, 2019 There has been an increase in meningococcal meningitis/septicaemia in Ireland in the last two weeks with 11 cases notified since week 52 2018. Unfortunately three patients diagnosed with meningococcal disease have died, all three of...
Date: March 6, 2018
Published: March 6, 2018 Nigeria is experiencing its largest-ever outbreak of Lassa fever. Lassa fever is one of a group of tropical and sub-tropical infections - the so called, viral haemorrhagic fevers - which can cause dangerous epidemics, but for which no...
Date: October 17, 2017
Published: October 17, 2017 Madagascar has been experiencing an outbreak of plague since 23 August 2017, and 560 cases and 57 deaths (case fatality rate 10.1%) have been reported as of 12 October 2017. Of these cases, 394 are pneumonic plague, 143 bubonic plag...
Date: October 13, 2017
Published: October 13, 2017 Madagascar is experiencing an outbreak of plague since 23 August 2017. As of 3 October 2017, 194 cases and 30 deaths (case fatality rate 15.5%) have been reported. Of these cases, 124 cases are pneumonic plague including 21 deaths,...
Date: September 18, 2017
Published: September 18, 2017 Parents and their children who travel to countries where malaria is present are reminded that it is vital for all travellers to take anti-malaria preventive medicine to prevent serious illness. Travellers to sub-Saharan Africa hav...
Date: September 1, 2017
Published: September 1, 2017 Parents (and their children) who travel to malarious countries to visit family are being warned that it is vital to ensure that they arrange to take malaria prophylaxis (preventive antibiotics). Travellers to sub-Saharan Africa hav...
Date: September 1, 2017
Published: September 1, 2017 HPSC and Beaumont Hospital have produced Clinical guidelines on the management of suspected malaria. These are now available on the HPSC website.
Date: February 13, 2015
Published: February 13, 2015 The Health Protection Surveillance Centre advises persons travelling to Asia to avoid contact with live poultry or wild birds and practise good hand hygiene. Persons travelling to Asia to celebrate the Chinese New Year (19 February...
Date: January 1, 2015
Published: January 29, 2015 On 29 December 2014, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH or Folkehelseinstituttet) was notified of a case of wound botulism in a heroin-injecting drug user living in Oslo. Since then two additional Norwegian cases have be...
Date: November 27, 2014
Published: November 27, 2014 On 4 November 2014, the Ministry of Health of Madagascar notified WHO of an outbreak of plague evolving in the country since 31 August 2014. Outbreaks of plague occur frequently and follow a seasonal pattern in Madagascar. The firs...
Date: November 1, 2013
Published: November 1, 2013 Six cases of wound botulism have been reported in Norway among people who had injected heroin. Two cases have been confirmed and four are suspected cases with laboratory results pending. All cases reported heroin use and most report...
Date: August 17, 2012
Published: August 17, 2012 The Health Protection Agency, UK has announced that a person who injected drugs has died in hospital in Blackpool, Lancashire with confirmed anthrax infection. There is an ongoing outbreak of anthrax among injecting drug users that h...