Transmit: Health protection service bulletin. 2011: Issue 7

This edition of Transmit leads with the arrangements for the management of seasonal flu during the 2011/12 campaign. It provides an overview of the vaccination programme, including details on who should be vaccinated, and includes a link to the updated chapter in the Green Book.

The bulletin has duty room guidance on the management of invasive group A streptococcal disease (iGAS) and the news section gives an encouraging update on measles in Northern Ireland.

A number of routine reports are also summarised in this edition of Transmit. Statistics and graphs are provided to outline the latest reports on:

• ·         Immunisations and vaccine preventable diseases
• ·         Respiratory pathogens, quarters one and two 2011, Northern Ireland
• ·         Quarterly reporting of MRSA and Clostridium difficile infections (CDI)
• ·         Cryptosporidium 2010