Health alerts and news

• Updated advice on the use of pandemic and seasonal influenza vaccines in children <10 years of age, (Withdrawal of Panvax Junior), 26 August 2010, ATAGI
• Measles update, Queensland Health, 25 August 2010
• Measles alert, Queensland Health, 20 August 2010
• Access to antivirals for high risk groups and those with moderate/severe influenza, Queensland Health, 3 August 2010
• Seasonal flu vaccination for young children can be resumed - Commonwealth Chief Medical Officer, 30 July
• Seasonal flu vaccinations & young children - Commonwealth Chief Medical Officer, 23 April 2010

Pandemic H1N1 and Seasonal Flu

• Click to view current and previous advice regarding seasonal flu vaccination and pandemic H1N1.

Notifiable diseases

• Form PHA S70 - Notifiable Conditions Report for Queensland Clinicians (PDF)   |  Medical Director 
• Changes to Public Health Measures for Contacts of Meningococcal Disease (Queensland Health, October 2007)

Travel health

• Travel Health - Have you recently arrived from overseas or returned from overseas (Waiting room poster)
• Smartraveller
• World Health Organisation Disease Outbreak News

Useful links

• Queensland Health provides communicable disease resources
• World Organisation for Animal Health
• Avian influenza (Qld Govt Dept of Primary Industries & Fisheries)

Last updated: 28 July 2010