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Health Protection Public Health Wales provides health protection services to the people of Wales. These services are integrated with our other public health services and are delivered primarily through: Health Protection Teams Microbiology Laboratories   Reference Laboratories and Specialist Services The Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre (CDSC) Health Protection Programmes in Immunisation and Vaccine Preventable Diseases, Healthcare Associated Infections, Respiratory Infections, Blood Borne Viruses and Sexual Health and Antibiotic Resistance

Topics of Interest First injecting drug use data report for Wales published:  The report provides data on activity within all 46 statutory and voluntary sector needle and syringe programmes (NSPs) across Wales recorded on the Harm Reduction Database Wales over the period 01/09/2010 to 31/03/2012. Latest hepatitis B vaccination uptake data from Welsh prisons:  Hepatitis B vaccination data reported from HMP Cardiff, HMP Parc, HMP Prescoed, HMP Swansea and HMP Usk for July-December 2012 have been published. Update on novel coronavirus infection in UK:  Since the first identification of a novel coronavirus in September 2012, four confirmed cases had been identified in the UK by 19 February 2013. Of these, three are associated with a family cluster.

Latest News Influenza activity in Wales: week 20 2013:  The weekly clinical consultation rate for influenza in Wales for week 20 2013 is 3.6 consultations per 100,000 population. This is below the threshold for normal seasonal activity but has increased compared to the consultation rate for the previous week (2.5 per 100,000).   Laboratory-confirmed infections and notifications reports:  The Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre has published reports on rates of laboratory-confirmed infections and notifications of communicable diseases in Wales for the month of April 2013.   GP surveillance of infections in Wales report:  Weekly newsletter which includes clinical consultations rates of 13 diseases, based on returns from 44 sentinel practices in Wales, and a topical news article. This week - World Malaria Day more news ...