Communicable Diseases Intelligence volume 5 issue 15 - 31 July 1981 - whole issue

Abstract

Whole-issue pdf, comprising:

Certification of achieved malaria eradication
On 31 May 1981, Australia was entered in the WHO Official Register of areas where malaria had been eradicated.
The status of malaria eradication in Australia will be published every six months in the WHO "Weekly Epidemiological Record" [end]

Virus Reporting Scheme

Article
Spectinomycin-resistant penicillin-resistant non-penicillinase producing N. gonorrhoeae [Perth, W.A.]

B-lactamase producing N. gonorrhoeae (PPNG) [brief notifications in Australia Jan-Jun 1981]

National Health and Medical Research Council statements
Summary of Statements made at the meeting of June 1981 on the following STDs:
Statement on sexually transmitted diseases
Protection against sexually transmitted diseases
Notification of genital herpes
Treatment of gonorrhoea
Penicillinase-producing gonococcal infections and
Treponemal serology testing
[more Statements in CDI 81/16, page 2]

Neonatal death caused by Campylobacter jejuni [Cairns, Qld.]

Kaposis sarcoma and Pneumocystis pneumonia among homosexual men - U.S.A.

Australia - Communicable Diseases Intelligence
Reporting Period - 09/07/1981 to 22/07/1981 Bulletin Number 81/15