Communicable Diseases Intelligence volume 22 issue 5 - May 1998-whole issue

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Contents:

National Influenza Surveillance 1997
National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) recommendations on influenza vaccination
Pertussis in South Australia
Japanese encephalitis on the Australian mainland
Haemolytic Uraemic Syndrome in South Australia
Notice to readers: CDI Internet address
Communicable Diseases Surveillance: Highlights (vaccine preventable diseases, arboviruses, hepatitis A, respiratory diseases)
National influenza surveillance 1998 (year to date)
HIV and AIDS surveillance, reporting period November 1997, assessed as at 28 February 1998
Gonococcal surveillance, reporting period 1 July to 30 September 1997
Sentinel chicken surveillance program, reporting period March 1998
Serious adverse events following vaccination surveillance scheme, reporting period 16 December 1997 to 27 April 1998
National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System tables, 1 to 28 April 1998
Laboratory Serology and Virology Reporting Scheme tables, 26 March to 22 April 1998
Australian Sentinel Practice Research Network report tables, weeks 13 to 16, 1998
Overseas briefs (dengue and dengue haemorrhagic fever, diarrhoea, meningitis)