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Home Health alerts – infectious diseases

Health alerts – infectious diseases

Current infectious disease health alerts for medical practitioners in Western Australia.

WA Health media releases provide further public health information and warnings.

For COVID-19 clinician alerts please visit COVID-19 information for health professionals.

2023

January

  • Increase in invasive Group A Streptococcus infection notifications – 17 January 2023 (PDF 103KB)

2022

November

  • Toxicity after ingesting large quantities of poppy seeds – 11 November 2022 (PDF52KB)

September

  • Monkeypox virus – Clinician Alert #5 – 30 September 2022 (PDF 1.1MB)
  • Rabies post-exposure prophylaxis – Clinician Alert – 16 September 2022 (PDF 122KB)

August

  • Monkeypox virus – Clinician Alert #4 – 24 August 2022 (PDF 61KB) 
  • Shigellosis treatment guidelines – Clinician Alert – 5 August 2022 (PDF 80KB)
  • Increase in HIV notifications among Aboriginal people – 10 August 2022 (PDF163KB)

July

  • MERS-CoV – Clinician Alert 8 July 2022 (PDF 74KB)
  • Monkeypox virus – Clinician Alert #3 – 8 July 2022 (PDF 62KB) 

May

  • Monkeypox virus – urgently notifiable disease in WA Clinician Alert #2 – 31 May 2022 (PDF 52KB)
  • Monkeypox virus – Clinician Alert #1 – 20 May 2022 (PDF 67KB)
  • Paediatric Hepatitis – unknown aetiology in children Infectious disease specialist/gastroenterologists alert – 04 May 2022 (PDF 58KB)

March

  • Japanese Encephalitis Virus –  Clinician Alert – 02 March 2022 (PDF 79KB)
Last reviewed: 18-01-2023

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