Posts about the work of the Health Protection directorate
...of these infections considered to be zoonoses. Zoonoses are infections spread between animals and humans. So people that have close and frequent exposure to animals, especially sick animals, or animal...
...sign of the condition is a tingling sensation in the affected area, followed by pain and then a rash, usually on the chest. It mainly affects older adults as you...
...a local level is essential. More broadly, to deliver on the opportunities created by the transition in sexual and reproductive health and HIV commissioning arrangements over the last year, real...
...at this time of year much of my time is taken up studying them: their ecology, abundance and the diseases they transmit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzR1eja6Wa8 Ticks are becoming much more common now...
We have had some fantastic news recently. More children have been vaccinated against measles and the number of measles infections has reduced. This means that we are getting back on track towards eliminating the disease. Measles has been relatively rare …
...of year. Syndromic surveillance primarily measures the reporting of symptoms caused by anything from flu to norovirus. It’s not simply bugs we look at, either. This surveillance can also measure...
...example of a investigation that is typical of the sort of issues that we face. This outbreak of gastrointestinal illness made the BBC News. (See a full report of the...
In the past month, windstorms and flooding have been knocking at our doors more frequently than we would like. Like an unwelcome guest, severe weather brings with it many problems and often ones that are not always easily visible. It …
HIV remains a major source of harm to people’s health, much of which is avoidable. There are more HIV tests being performed in England than at any time in the...
Antibiotics have been around for nearly 70 years. Many people still alive today may remember them first being used to treat casualties from the Second World War. Around 1944 a newspaper billboard proclaimed that ‘Penicillin cures gonorrhoea in four hours …
