2024 - Infectious disease alerts

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1. December 2024
2. September 2024
3. August 2024
4. June 2024
5. May 2024
6. April 2024
7. March 2024
8. February 2024
9. January 2024

December 2024

Update on Japanese Encephalitis Virus (JEV) risk [12 December 2024]

September 2024

• Viral gastroenteritis update: information for early childhood and vacation care directors [26 September 2024]
• Pertussis (Whooping cough) alert: Information for GPs and clinicians [20 September 2024]
• HIV PrEP medication shortage alert: Information for GPs and clinicians [18 September 2024]
• Scabies update: Information for GPs and clinicians [13 September 2024]
• Mpox alert: Information for GPs and clinicians [9 September 2024]

August 2024

Mpox alert: Information for GPs and clinicians [2 August 2024]

June 2024

• Mpox alert: Information for GPs and clinicians [25 June 2024]
• Avian influenza: Information for GPs [21 June 2024]
• Macrolide shortage alert: Information for GPs [18 June 2024]
• AMR gonorrhoea alert: Information for GPs [13 June 2024]
• Mpox alert: Information for GPs [03 June 2024]

May 2024

• Measles alert for south western Sydney [21 May 2024]
• Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Update [20 May 2024]

April 2024

Measles alert: Information for GPs [11 April 2024]

March 2024

• Rabies risk in Timor-Leste - Information for GPs [28 March 2024]
• Pertussis (Whooping Cough) - Information for GPs [27 March 2024]
• Measles alert for western Sydney [15 March 2024]
• Measles alert for Sydney Domestic Airport and Sydney CBD [5 March 2024]

February 2024

• Measles alert for western Sydney [28 February 2024]
• Measles alert for Sydney [14 February 2024]
• Measles alert for northern NSW [11 February 2024]
• Legionnaires’ disease alert for Sydney [22 February 2024]
• Cryptosporidiosis alert for NSW [13 February 2024]

January 2024

Measles

• Measles alert for Sydney International Airport [24 January 2024]
• Measles alert: Information for NSW General Practitioners [17 January 2024]
• Media release: Measles alert for south western Sydney [17 January 2024]
• Media release: Measles alert for western Sydney [16 January 2024]

Legionella and Mycoplasma Pneumonia

• Media release: Legionnaires' disease alert for Sydney CBD [3 January 2024]
• Legionella and Mycoplasma Pneumonia – Information for NSW general practitioners [3 January 2024]
• Safety Alert 001/24: Clinician Alert - Pneumonia - Legionela and Mycoplasma [4 January 2024]

Mosquito safety alert

Mosquitoes - holiday season alert [3 January 2024]