Communicable Diseases Intelligence volume 24 issue 9 September 2000-whole issue

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Contents

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease surveillance - Australia at the cross-roads?
Deferral of blood donation from people who have been in the United Kingdom between 1980 and 1996
Drafts for Comment (Draft Australian/New Zealand Standard: Safety in laboratories, Part 3: Microbiology; UK Food Standards Agency Draft Report on BSE Controls; Global Strategy for Containment of Antimicrobial Resistance)
Immunisation coverage estimates
Correspondence
Surveillance of antibiotic resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae in the WHO Western Pacific Region, 1999
Subscription changes
An outbreak of multi-resistant Shigella sonnei in a long-stay geriatric nursing centre
New publications (Overcoming Antimicrobial Resistance; National Hepatitis C Strategy 1999-2000 to 2003-2004; Changes and Challenges. National Hepatitis HIV/AIDS Strategy 1999-2000; Hepatitis C: Informing Australia’s National Response; HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis C and Sexually Transmissible Infections in Australia: Annual Surveillance Report 2000)
Vaccine preventable diseases and vaccination coverage in Australia, 1993-1998 (summary report)
New publications (Guidelines for the control of measles outbreaks in Australia – July 2000; Let’s Work Together to Beat Measles)
Communicable Diseases Surveillance: Highlights for August 2000 (typhoid, vaccine preventable diseases, malaria, legionellosis, meningococcal infections, influenza)
National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System tables, 1 to 31 August 2000
Laboratory Serology and Virology Reporting Scheme tables, 1 to 31 August 2000
Australian Sentinel Practice Research Network report tables, weeks 31 to 34, 2000
Gonococcal surveillance, reporting period 1 April to 30 June 2000
Australian encephalitis: chicken surveillance program, reporting period July and August 2000
HIV and AIDS surveillance, reporting period 1 to 30 April 2000, assessed as at 31 July 2000
Bulletin board
Overseas briefs, reporting period 1 to 31 August 2000 (salmonella, respiratory illness, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (new variant), hand foot and mouth disease, enterovirus 71, Rift Valley fever, cholera, yellow fever, acute febrile illness, leptospirosis, West Nile fever)