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CHO health alerts
A Health Alert advises the Victorian community of an issue that is urgent, poses an immediate threat to public health and requires an immediate response.
Updates to current Health Alerts may be issued if necessary.
An Alert with the status ‘Not active’ indicates the issue has been resolved.
Current alert list
- Novel Coronavirus (NCoV) - alert for health professionals - 14 May 2013
- Legionnaires’ disease – alert for Health professionals – 19 April 2013
- H7N9 Influenza - circular to clinicians and laboratories - 9 April 2013
- Update: Outbreak of Cryptosporidiosis extends to regional Victoria - 19 March 2013
- Update: Outbreak of Cryptosporidiosis extends to wider metropolitan Melbourne - 7 March 2013
- Outbreak of cryptosporidiosis - alert for health professionals - 1 March 2013
- Mosquito-borne disease in returned travellers - alert for health professionals - 26 February 2013
- Legionnaires’ disease – alert for health professionals – 24 January 2013
- Legionnaires’ disease – alert for health professionals – 3 December 2012
- Influenza season – residential aged care facilities – 24 July 2012
- M. ulcerans (Bairnsdale/Buruli ulcer) alert for GPs – 23 July 2012
- Influenza season – alert for health professionals –16 July 2012
- Influenza season – alert for consumers – 16 July 2012
- Poisonous mushrooms – health warning – 6 January 2012
