Posts relating to PHE Priority 3: Protecting the country's health
...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...
...of the proteome. In PHE, one of the ways that we analyse bacterial proteins is using mass spectrometry (MS) technology. This has helped our scientists to understand more about which...
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...
...clean-up not to use petrol or diesel generators or other fuel driven equipment indoors, as their fumes contain carbon monoxide. PHE has published guidance to support post flooding recovery and...
...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...
...or detection of nucleic acid, particularly for the microorganisms that we cannot culture using traditional techniques. Analysing all the complex biological data we are now able to produce often involves...
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 …
