Transmit: Health protection service bulletin. 2010: Issue 6

Issue 6 of Transmit covers a wide range of health protection issues, leading with headline statistics from the HIV and STI surveillance in Northern Ireland 2010 report, released on World AIDS Day, December 1. The report underlines the continued need for vigilance against STIs in Northern Ireland and details the emergence of lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV) among men who have sex with men (MSM).

Issue 5 also looks at the seven cases of Legionnaires’ disease in Northern Ireland in 2009, and examines recent trends, including the travel history of those diagnosed with the disease.

There is also coverage of the winter influenza vaccination programme, including uptake statistics, while the duty room update provides information on norovirus.

Other news items include mycobacteria data and summaries of two Health Protection Agency reports, one on tuberculosis in the UK in 2010, and another on infections among injecting drug users in the UK.