The Public Health Post

COVID-19 situation | Increase in STEC notifications in the Wellington region resulting from changes in laboratory testing | Toxic algae poisoning | Notifiable cases in the Hutt Valley, Wairarapa and Wellington | Cluster of antibiotic resistant bacteria in Lower Hutt 2018-19 | Porirua Children's Ear Van

The medical officer of health's role in curbing alcohol related harm | Immunisation co-delivery in Wairarapa | Notifiable cases in the Hutt Valley, Wairarapa and Wellington | Update from the Porirua Children's Ear Van | Reducing the spread of illness in ECCs | Referrals to school public health nurses

Measles in the greater Wellington region | RPH primary care liaison project | Notifiable cases in the Hutt Valley, Wairarapa and Wellington | Greater Wellington region hazardous substance notifications 2018 | Massey University leptospirosis control case study | STI surveillance dashboard

Changes to hepatitis C management in primary care | Notifiable cases in the Hutt Valley, Wairarapa and Wellington | Syphilis is back - think syphilis with all your patients | Exclusion times with infectious illness

Good news for swimmers and splashers - cryptosporidiosis notifications low | Notifiable cases in the Hutt Valley, Wairarapa and Wellington | Health health plans | Health education resources

Relaunching Healthy Skin in Great Wellington Region | Notifiable cases in the Hutt Valley, Wairarapa and Wellington | 2018 Australasian Tuberculosis Conference

Joint PHO-RPH submissions on diabetes prevention | Notifiable cases in the Hutt Valley, Wairarapa and Wellington | Private water supplies come with responsibility
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Norovirus outbreak in an aged residential care facility | Public health management of STEC notifications in transition | Notifiable cases in the Hutt Valley, Wairarapa and Wellington | Disease notification - How your general practice can help | Well Homes referrals | 2018 Australasian TB Conference

Pertussis - Wellington region not spared by national epidemic | Notifiable cases in the Hutt Valley, Wairarapa and Wellington | Dengue fever in the Pacific - Update | Raumati splash pad | Keeping cool this summer | Influenza 2018 - Be prepared | Disease notification - How your general practice can help | Enteric notifications | 2018 tuberculosis conference

Mumps in Wellington, Wairarapa and the Hutt Valley | Disease notification - How your general practice can help | Notifiable cases in the Hutt Valley, Wairarapa and Wellington | Public Health in the Pacific | Emergency preparedness

Tuberculosis in Wairarapa | Smoking and mental health | Notifiable cases in the Hutt Valley, Wairarapa and Wellington | Water-only schools survey | Disease notification - How your general practice can help

Sleep tight, and don’t let the bedbugs bite! | Disease notification - How your general practice can help | Notifiable cases in the Hutt Valley, Wairarapa and Wellington | Expanded Well Homes programme | Reminder: Progress on implementation of the notification process for Section C diseases

Wellington region tuberculosis disease rates low in 2015-2016 | Notifiable cases in the Hutt Valley, Wairarapa and Wellington | Health (Protection) Amendment Act 2016 | BCG vaccine availability | Disease notification - How your general practice can help | Public health and the Prostitution Reform Act

Robust processes underpin nurse-led vaccinations | Primary care handbook update | Reducing hospitalisations in 0-4 year olds | Notifiable cases in the Hutt Valley, Wairarapa and Wellington | Porirua Children's Ear Van

Lead notification and response | Disease notification - How your general practice can help | Notifiable cases in the Hutt Valley, Wairarapa and Wellington | Needle exchange services - A clean fit

Imported frozen berries & hepatitis A in the news | Notifiable cases in the Hutt Valley, Wairarapa and Wellington | To swim or not to swim - algal blooms in recreational water | Disease notification - How your general practice can help

Sub-Regional Dengue fever update | Notifiable cases in the Hutt Valley, Wairarapa and Wellington | Communication: Email and cell phone numbers requested for notified cases | Safe holiday tips

A case of foodborne botulism | Ministry of Health reminder regarding sawmill workers | Invasive meningococcal disease | Notifiable cases in the Hutt Valley, Wairarapa and Wellington | Emerging arboviral diseases in the Pacific – Chikungunya and Zika | Refugee Health and Wellbeing workshop

‘Well Homes’ Coordination Service up and running to improve housing-related health | Wellington region tuberculosis cases, 2014 | Managing concerns about chemical exposures | Notifiable cases in the Hutt Valley, Wairarapa and Wellington | Good communication about notifiable conditions

Disneyland measles outrage: How to frame vaccines | Disease notification - How your general practice can help | Polio – International | BCG update | Health 4 Life: Short course 2015 dates

Ebola virus disease public health readiness | Ten years of outbreaks in the Hutt Valley, Wairarapa and Wellington | Disease notification - How your general practice can help | What can RPH offer for primary care?

Campylobacteriosis outbreak linked to unpasteurised (raw) milk | Disease notification - How your general practice can help | One year of serious enteric infections in the Hutt Valley, Wellington and Wairarapa

Penicillin prophylaxis for rheumatic fever | Disease notification - How your general practice can help | Centre for Public Health Research hazardous substances report released

Serious skin infections still a hot topic | Patient persuasion:facts give doctors and nurses an edge | Reminder: incubation and communicability of enteric disease

Leprosy in the Wellington region | Hepatitis C | Pertussis vaccination in pregnancy | The voice of community on health and alcohol

Rheumatic fever in greater Wellington | Turtles, tropical fish | Solaria and sunbeds | Public Health Nurses to use standing orders for skin infections | Warm up NZ, Healthy homes referrals | Disease notifications

Pertussis in health workers | Disease notification | Hand, Foot and Mouth disease

Sugar-weight? | Legionellosis in Wellington | International: Polio not quite beaten | Regional lead poisoning 2012 | Disease notification

Unhealthy housing - The new smoking? | Exclusion from work for cases with diarrhoea | Hazardous substances disease and injury notifications | What's new in disease notification | Hepatitis C - New model of care launched

Leptospirosis risk | Cryptosporidiosis numbers diving | Skin infections targeted | Hospitalisation & death with notifiable conditions

Cryptosporidiosis cases perplexing | Meningococcal disease expected | First Wellington Hepatitis E Case

Toxic Algae: cyanobacteria in regional waterways | Mumps - still seen in our region but not common | Healthy skin promotion | Refugee health workshop for primary care services

Lead poisoning | Measles vaccines | Toxic cocktails | Tortured history

Measles and Koplik's spots | Meningococcal C | Campylobacter | Iodine prescriptions for pregnant and breastfeeding women

Listeriosis vulnerability | Hepatitis B vulnerable cohort | The Porirua kids project | Diagnosing and managing pertussis

Yersiniosis not stopped by the cold | Serious skin infection hospitalisation rates | VTEC

Neonatal chlamydia conjunctivitis | Could it be TB? | Paratyphoid fever

Tuberculosis tracing | Christchurch earthquake response | Carbon monoxide | WHO end influenza pandemic | Measles update

Rift Valley fever | Resthome gastroenteritis outbreaks | Invasive pneumococcal disease | Measles update

Big (reef) fish | Norovirus | Shigellosis