Date: June 19, 2025
Measles cases and outbreaks have been reported in many European countries, including popular summer holiday destinations, as well as further afield (USA, Canada, Vietnam, Cambodia, Philippines). The HSE is concerned that measles outbreaks may occur in Ireland...
Date: June 4, 2025
Trends to the end of 2024The Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) has published annual data on STIs for 2024. There has been an 11% decrease in the STI notification rate in 2024 compared with 2023 however the STI notification rate remains 31% higher th...
Date: May 16, 2025
Norovirus, a very common cause of gastroenteritis, is currently circulating at high levels in the community and these levels are likely to continue for the next number of weeks. Updates on norovirus cases are published on the HPSC's national notifiable disease...
Date: May 16, 2025
The HSE is echoing advice from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) not to touch or handle any sick or dead wild birds, because of the risks of avian influenza. Sick/dead wild birds can be reported to DAFM via the Avian Check app. Nineteen...
Date: May 16, 2025
HPSC marked Tick Awareness Day on 1st May, offering practical advice on how to protect against ticks, whose bite can cause a bacterial infection called Lyme disease.
Date: May 14, 2025
In advance of travelling to Hajj or Umrah, pilgrims from Ireland are required to have received meningococcal vaccination.
Date: January 28, 2025
Small numbers of sporadic imported cases of clade Ib mpox may occur among travellers arriving from places in Africa where cases are regularly being reported in the community. In a small proportion of these imported cases, mpox spread to close contacts e.g. to...
Date: October 6, 2024
Published: February 26, 2024 There was an increase in the number of scabies outbreaks in Ireland in 2023, with 26 reported compared to nine in 2022. As of February 15th, 2024, an additional eight outbreaks have been notified in 2024. Outbreaks have occurred in...
Date: September 27, 2024
Published: March 13, 2020 In the past two weeks, the number of cases of COVID-19 worldwide, outside China has increased 13-fold, and the number of affected countries has tripled. Many people have lost their lives and thousands more are fighting for their lives...
Date: September 27, 2024
Published: January 21, 2020 Situation summaryHPSC is closely monitoring an outbreak caused by a novel (new) coronavirus in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China. Chinese authorities identified the new coronavirus, which has resulted in several cases of human infec...
Date: September 27, 2024
Published: January 10, 2020 Summary:As of 5 January 2020 and since the first report on 31 December 2019, 59 pneumonia cases possibly associated with a novel coronavirus have been reported in Wuhan, China with a common exposure link to Wuhan’s South China Seafo...
Date: September 27, 2024
Published: January 9, 2020 SummaryAs of 5 January 2020 and since the first report on 31 December 2019, 59 cases with no deaths associated of pneumonia of unknown aetiology were reported in Wuhan city, China. Further investigations could identify 163 close cont...