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Previous Health Alerts
Previous alert list
2011
- Blue-green algae in the Gippsland Lakes - 29 December 2011
- Free pertussis vaccine for parents of newborns extended - 8 June 2011
- Measles health alert for GPs and Emergency Departments - 27 April 2011
- Health warning on mosquitoes - 22 February 2011
- Heat health alerts for Monday 31 January – Wednesday 2 February
- Pertussis epidemic - Chief Health Officer Advisory for health professionals - 28 January 2011
- Measles health alert for GPs & Emergency Departments - 27 January 2011
- Advice to GPs in flood-affected areas - tetanus vaccine and treatment of infections - 19 January 2011
- Vaccine cold chain management strategies for a power outage - 19 January 2011
- Legionnaires' disease cluster associated with travellers to Bali - January 2011
2010
- Health Professionals update: Pandemic phase change - December 2010
- Management of locust spray contamination: information for health professionals - November 2010
- Medicines Alert: Urgent recall of APO-PERINDOPRIL 2mg tablets - November 2010
- NSW recalls weight loss products containing sibutramine - October 2010
- Hepatitis C - October 2010
- Flood recovery and your health - September 2010
- Measles alert for GPs and emergency departments - August 2010
- 2010 Influenza season: updated information for health professionals - July 2010
- Hepatitis A Outbreak - July 2010
- Important seasonal gastroenteritis update - June 2010
- Legionnaires' disease - May 2010
- Hepatitis C Cluster and lookback investigation: updated information for doctors - April 2010
- Hepatitis C alert - April 2010
- Measles alert - February 2010
- Anthrax: injecting heroin users - January 2010
2009
- Latex allergy and syringe for use with swine flu vaccine - December 2009
- Relenza (zanamivir) Safety Advisory - October 2009
- Health warning on semi-dried tomatoes - October 2009
- H1N1 Influenza 09 (Human Swine Flu) - May 2009
- Hepatitis A outbreak - April 2009
- Measles alert - March 2009
- Pertussis alert - March 2009
2008
- Rabies alert Bali - December 2008
- Consensus guidelines for use of anti-coagulants during heparin based product shortages - May 2008
- Further detections of Murray Valley encephalitis (MVE) virus in sentinel chickens in northern Victoria - May 2008
- GP Alert for Legionnaires' Disease - May 2008
- Urgent Recall Advice - Clexane - April 2008
- Murray Valley encephalitis (MVE) virus located in sentinel chickens in northern Victoria - March 2008
- Maintaining world's best practice when managing people with HIV who put others at risk - February 2008
2007
- Influenza Alert for General Practitioners (letter and fact sheet) - December 2007
- Advice for medical practitioners on avian influenza (Infectious Diseases Epidemiology & Surveillance website) - December 2007
- Bindeez Beads – Warning about potential poisoning risk in children – November 2007
- Cluster of deaths associated with influenza in Western Australia - July 2007
- Influenza Alert for General Practitioners (letter and fact sheet) - August 2007
Pre 2007
- Syphilis Alert - Information for General Practitioners and other health care workers February - 2005
- Measles - May 2003
- Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) - May 2003
- Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) - April 2003
- Mycobacterium Ulcerans Skin Ulcers - August 2001
- Measles Alert for Medical Practitioners - February 2001
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Meningococcal Disease Alert for Medical Practitioners - August 2000
Replaced by current information as pdf file
Meningococcal Disease (61kb, pdf)
Current Health Alerts
Recent health alerts can be viewed on the Current Health Alerts page.
