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Foodborne disease surveillance and outbreak investigations in Western Australia 2013 annual report

OzFoodNet, Communicable Disease Control Directorate

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgement is given to the following people for their assistance with the activities described in this report: Mr Brian MacKenzie, Mr Damien Bradford, Ms Lyn O’Reilly, Ms Jenny Green, Mr Ray Mogyorosy and the staff from the enteric, PCR and food laboratories at PathWest Laboratory Medicine WA; Mr Stan Goodchild, Ms Anna Anagno and other staff from the Food Unit of the Department of Health, Western Australia; Public Health Nurses from the metropolitan and regional Population Health Units; and Local Government Environmental Health Officers.

Contributors/Editors

Barry Combs, Sarojini Monteiro, Nevada Pingault

Communicable Disease Control Directorate

Department of Health, Western Australia

PO Box 8172

Perth Business Centre

Western Australia 6849

Email: OzfoodnetWA@health..au

Telephone: (08) 9388 4999

Facsimile: (08) 9388 4877

Web:

OzFoodNet WA Health public.health..au/3/605/2/ozfoodnet_enteric_infections_reports.pm

OzFoodNet Department of Health and Ageing

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Disclaimer:

Every endeavour has been made to ensure that the information provided in this document was accurate at the time of writing. However, infectious disease notification data are continuously updated and subject to change.

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This publication has been produced by the Department of Health, Western Australia.

Executive summary

This report is a summary of enteric disease surveillance activities and outbreak investigations in Western Australia (WA) in 2013.

Enteric disease causes a large burden of illness in the WA community. In WA, there are 16 enteric infections that are notifiable to the Department of Health. The Department of Health through OzFoodNet (OFN) and other agencies conducts surveillance and investigates outbreaks so that targeted interventions can be used to help prevent further transmission.

In WA, there was 4060 enteric disease notifications in 2013 with a rate of 164 cases per 100 000 population which is 9% lower than the average for the previous five years. The age group with the highest rate was ................
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