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Public Health Bulletins

Monthly surveillance reports show current year-to-date rates for each notifiable disease in the Waikato, and month comparisons with the same month of the previous year.

These are published in our monthly Public Health Bulletin:

  • September [PDF, 536 KB] - COVID-19 update, IT update, World Hepatitis Day, Welcome to new Public Health Unit staff, Respiratory Virus Update, Reminder: lab requests, and Notifiable diseases - July 2021.
  • June/July [PDF, 780 KB] - COVID-19 update, IT Outage update, Crate Day report, WorkWell
  • April [PDF, 619 KB] - COVID-19 vaccine, Rheumatic Fever, Smokefree Action Plan consultation, Drive Smokefree for Tamariki campaign 
  • March [PDF, 814 KB] - Spotlight on notifiable diseases, Measles and Mumps, Refugee and Migrant Health, COVID-19 Vaccine
  • January/February [PDF, 931 KB] - COVID-19 Update, New members join the Public Health team, Smokefree update, Lead detected in Otago drinking water
  • December [PDF, 501 KB] - Topics include MMR catch up campaign, “Make Summer Unstoppable” and COVID-19 vaccination planning
  • November [PDF, 848 KB] - COVID-19 Update, Time to Screen – “My body, my health, my future”, World Antimicrobial Awareness Week, Notification of Hazardous Substances Disease and Injury
  • October [PDF, 562 KB] - Healthy Active Learning, COVID-19: Higher Index of Suspicion, Measles Immunisation Campaign, Recreational Water
  • September [PDF, 571 KB] - COVID-19 response, Measles Mumps Rubella (MMR) catch up, Tuberculosis (TB) management
  • July [PDF, 546 KB] - COVID-19 Updates, Rheumatic fever update, Outbreak of meningococcal Serogroup W in a community hospital in the Waikato
  • June [PDF, 446 KB] - COVID-19, Rheumatic fever update, Refugee health update
  • March [PDF, 449 KB] - COVID-19 special edition
  • February [PDF, 401 KB] - MMR Catch up campaign announced, COVID-19
  • January [PDF, 368 KB] - Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), Ministry of Health monitoring air quality following Australian bushfires
  • December [PDF, 348 KB]
    • Vaccinations for year 7 and 8 students, notification of sexually transmitted infections, meningococcal disease, campylobacter
  • November [PDF, 383 KB]
    • HPV vaccine, meningococcal disease, 2018 influenza season, notification of sexually transmitted infections, BCG vaccine
  • October [PDF, 446 KB]
    • Cryptosporidiosis and campylobacteriosis, refugee and migrant health, mumps
  • September [PDF, 318 KB]
    • Enteric diseases, exclusion and stool clearance criteria
  • August [PDF, 411 KB]
    • Notification urgency, BCG vaccine, mumps
  • July [PDF, 367 KB]
    • Mumps, pertussis, 2018 immunisation workshop, influenza season and vaccine
  • June [PDF, 395 KB]
    • Influenza, leptospirosis, preventing rheumatic fever
  • May [PDF, 388 KB]
    • Measles, winter is coming
  • April [PDF, 405 KB]
    • Measles alert, investigation into PFAS contamination, pertussis, updated WDHB website and Public Health guidance/forms, current outbreaks in the pacific region and Australia
  • March [PDF, 351 KB]
    • Mumps, influenza, pertussis, rheumatic fever prevention
  • February [PDF, 341 KB]
    • Dengue fever, non tuberculous mycobacterial (NTM), heterosexual infectious syphilis cases, BCG vaccinations