- October [PDF, 740 KB] - COVID-19 update, Kia Kaha Te Wiki o Te Reo Maaori, Welcome back Public Health Unit staff, Calving season, Health and wellbeing in Asian students report, Respiratory Virus update
- 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
Public Health Bulletins
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:
- 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, 356 KB]
- Update on Notifying Diseases, Bulletin Survey Reminder, New location for PHU, STI Notifications, & PHU new Service Director
- November [PDF, 329 KB]
- Leptospirosis case control study, mumps, cryptosporidiosis, ACWY vaccine
- September [PDF, 347 KB]
- It's all about measles
- August [PDF, 380 KB]
- Meningococcal disease & measles
- July [PDF, 470 KB]
- Pertussis & exclusion and stool clearance criteria
- June [PDF, 385 KB]
- STI notifications, dengue fever, Influenza
- May [PDF, 418 KB]
- Flu vaccines for rheumatic fever, measles, influenza, refugee and migrant health
- March [PDF, 1.4 MB]
- BCG catch up, influenza vaccinations, measles
- February [PDF, 379 KB]
- Measles (The "Immunity Gap"), salmonella typhimurium outbreak
- 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
- November [PDF, 382 KB]
- Hepatitis A outbreak, website, pertussis, cyanobacteria
- October [PDF, 366 KB]
- Pertussis, regional immunisation rates, onset date and occupation
- September [PDF, 345 KB]
- Rheumatic fever prevention, enteric disease, measles and raxubella
- August [PDF, 368 KB]
- Influenza, mumps
- July [PDF, 366 KB]
- Mumps, smoking cessation, authorisation of yellow fever vaccinators and vaccination centres
- June [PDF, 372 KB]