Dr L Kyne, RCPI (Paed) Prof C Bradley, ICGP Dr N O'Sullivan, ISCM Mr E O'Kelly, NVRL Dr P McKeown, HPSC Dr L Thornton, FPHMI Prof C Bergin, IDSI M Kelly, HPSC (Editor)
Health Protection Surveillance Centre 25-27 Middle Gardiner St Dublin 1
Zika virus infection has been made a notifiable disease in Ireland and will carry the same obligations for reporting as other notifiable infectious diseases.
TheHealth Protection Surveillance Centre wishes to alert the public and clinicians of an increase of pertussis notifications in infants for the first 20 weeks of 2016.
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Zika virus infection has been made a notifiable disease in Ireland and will carry the same obligations for reporting as other notifiable infectious diseases.
An updated protocol is available for the enhanced surveillance of bloodstream infections reported to EARS-Net in Ireland. 
The Health Protection Surveillance Centre is requesting hand hygiene compliance data from acute hospitals for May / June 2016.
The World Health Organization has issued an alert regarding an extensive outbreak of yellow fever in Africa.
The Health Protection Surveillance Centre wishes to alert the public and clinicians of an increase of pertussis notifications in infants for the first 20 weeks of 2016. 
The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has published antimicrobial consumption data for public acute hospitals.
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