Communicable Diseases Intelligence volume 20 issue 24 - 25 November 1996-whole issue

Abstract

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Contents

A human case of encephalitis due to a lyssavirus recently identified in fruit bats
Prevention of human lyssavirus infection
Annual report of the Virology and Serology Laboratory Reporting Scheme, 1995
Overseas briefs (Ebola haemorrhagic fever)
Communicable Diseases Surveillance: National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System tables, 27 October to 9 November 1996
HIV and AIDS surveillance, reporting period 1 to 30 June 1996, assessed as at 30 September 1996
Communicable Diseases Surveillance: Australian Sentinel Practice Research Network report tables, weeks 44 and 45, 1996
Communicable Diseases Surveillance: Laboratory Serology and Virology Reporting Scheme tables, 31 October to 13 November 1996