Praveena Gunaratnam, Sean Tobin, Holly Seale, Jeremy M McAnulty
AIM: To quantify the proportion of selected notified diseases in NSW attributable to overseas travel and assess the quality of data on travel-associated risk factors, to inform prevention strategies. METHODS: 2010 and 2011 notification data for dengue, hepatitis A, hepatitis E, malaria, paratyphoid fever, shigellosis and typhoid fever were extracted from the NSW Notifiable Conditions Information Management System and analysed for travel-associated risk factors. RESULTS: Where place of acquisition was known, the proportion of cases for whom the disease was acquired overseas ranged from 48...
June 2014: New South Wales Public Health Bulletin