Transmit: Health protection service bulletin. 2010: Issue 2

This edition of Transmit focuses on some of the issues and volume of work being handled by the health protection duty room since January 2010. It features an outline of the arrangements for the team leading work on emergency preparedness and environmental hazards, an update – including the uptake rates – on the childhood vaccines and vaccine preventable diseases, the risks associated with exposure to bats and rabies, and new guidance that has been issued by the DHSSPS in relation to HIV infection and post-exposure prophylaxis, including sexual exposure.