Date: May 1, 2024
Published: May 1, 2024 Up to 400 people estimated to be infected with Lyme disease each year in Ireland* Learn how to protect against and remove ticks Marking Tick Awareness Day (Wednesday, 1 May 2024), the HSE Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) is o...
Date: May 1, 2024
Published: May 1, 2024 Up to 400 people estimated to be infected with Lyme disease each year in Ireland* Learn how to protect against and remove ticks Marking Tick Awareness Day (Wednesday, 1 May 2024), the HSE Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) is o...
Date: April 25, 2024
Published: April 25, 2024 World Malaria Day takes place on 25th April and is commemorated annually to highlight the burden of malaria globally and the progress made to date by the global community towards malaria control. In highlighting this year's event, the...
Date: April 5, 2024
Published: April 5, 2024 Interactive access to the latest statistics for notifiable infectious diseases in Ireland is available on a new data hub. The HSE’s Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) new data hub, displays, for the first time, data for 79 no...
Date: March 27, 2024
Published: March 27, 2024 Striving to End Tuberculosis – A Strategy for Ireland 2024 - 2030 outlines the priorities, objectives, actions and enablers needed to end TB in Ireland. TB remains a significant public health issue both globally and in Ireland. Althou...
Date: March 26, 2024
Published: March 26, 2024 The Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) has published the annual data on STI for 2023, today March 26th, 2024. There have been significant increases in 2023 compared with 2022 and pre COVID-19 pandemic, this is similar to oth...
Date: March 21, 2024
Published: March 21, 2024 The theme of World TB Day 2024 - ‘Yes! We can end TB!’ – is a prompt to get back on track and turn the tide against the global TB epidemic. TB remains a significant public health issue both globally and in Ireland. Although there has...
Date: March 8, 2024
Published: March 8, 2024 There have been two confirmed measles cases in Ireland in 2024 The HSE Health Protection Surveillance Centre was notified on 6th March 2024 of a second case of confirmed measles in Ireland, based in the West. HSE Public Health teams, a...
Date: March 7, 2024
Published: March 7, 2024 HPSC has published provisional gonorrhoea annual data for 2023 today, Thursday 7th March. There has been a significant increase in case numbers in 2022 and 2023 compared with trends before the COVID-19 pandemic. Key statistics In 2023,...
Date: March 6, 2024
Published: March 6, 2024 Updated Guidelines for the Emergency Management of Injuries (EMI) and Post-Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP) have been published by the Research and Guideline Development Unit. The guidelines were updated following an extensive review process...
Date: February 26, 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: February 23, 2024
Published: February 23, 2024 The number of reported cases of influenza in Ireland has decreased in recent weeks. The highest numbers of influenza cases have been notified in children under the age of four and adults aged 65 years and older. Influenza surveilla...