Date: November 28, 2022
Published: November 28, 2022 Forty years since the first reports of HIV and AIDS in Ireland in 1982, HIV remains a significant public health issue in Ireland. Surveillance of HIV is vital for understanding and responding to the latest trends and features of th...
Date: November 17, 2022
Published: November 17, 2022 All healthcare workers in Ireland are invited to participate in a short survey on influenza and COVID-19 vaccination intention which will support planning of HSE immunisation programmes. The survey is a joint venture between HSE-He...
Date: November 15, 2022
Published: November 15, 2022 The Health Protection Research and Guideline Development Unit (RGDU) are inviting requests for development of new guidelines, or updates to existing guidelines, to be considered through a prioritisation process. Relevant organisati...
Date: November 1, 2022
Published: November 29, 2022 HSE urges the public to play its part in reducing infection Today (Tuesday, 29th November 2022), the HSE Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) asked the public to help prevent the spread of flu, as the latest figures show th...
Date: October 5, 2022
Published: October 5, 2022 HSE issues Public Health advice following bacterial meningitis notifications The HSE has confirmed that it is investigating four cases of meningococcal meningitis/septicaemia reported in the last week of September; 3 cases are confir...
Date: October 4, 2022
Published: October 4, 2022 Older people and at-risk groups urged to protect themselves against both flu and COVID-19 by getting their vaccines The HSE’s winter vaccination programme got underway yesterday (Monday, october 3rd) with the roll out of the free flu...
Date: July 26, 2022
Published: July 26, 2022 On 23rd July 2022, WHO’s Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, declared monkeypox a public health emergency of international concern. This comes with recommendations for countries with cases of monkeypox, like Ireland, to st...
Date: July 15, 2022
Published: July 15, 2022 The HPSC Seroepidemiology Unit (SEU) is pleased to announce the launch of the HPSC Seroepidemiology of COVID-19 Data Hub. The hub presents a summary of COVID-19 seroprevalence due to vaccination or infection in Ireland over time, by ag...
Date: June 23, 2022
Published: June 23, 2022 Since the end of May, signals across several COVID-19 and respiratory illness surveillance systems have indicated an increase in COVID-19 circulation. Data from week 24 (between June 12 and June 18 2022) indicate an ongoing increase: I...
Date: June 12, 2022
Published: June 12, 2022 Since March, 12 probable cases of children with hepatitis of unknown cause have been identified in Ireland and a small number of children are under investigation. This is more than would usually be expected over this period of time. Ad...
Date: June 10, 2022
Published: June 10, 2022 Signals across several COVID-19 surveillance programmes indicate increased COVID-19 circulation in the community. In week 22 (May 29-June 04 2022), 4,675 confirmed COVID-19 cases were reported to the Computerised Infectious Disease Rep...
Date: May 12, 2022
Published: May 12, 2022 From 16th May 2022 there will be a change to the frequency of reporting of the epidemiology of COVID-19 by HPSC. As previously communicated, HPSC has reviewed its COVID-19 epidemiological outputs in light of the current stage of the COV...