Surveillance reports recently posted on PPHSN website
Lab surveillance reports available at
http://www.spc.int/phs/PPHSN/Services/LabNet/Lab-surveillance-reports.htm
2005 Microbiology activity report of Wallis and Futuna Health Agency Clinical Laboratory, by Dr Jean-François Yvon, Biologist (original in French – available in English)
2005 Epidemiological report – Wallis and Futuna, by Doctors Laurent Morisse, Gwénaël Roualen and Jean-François Yvon of the EpiNet team in the Health Agency of the Territory of the Wallis and Futuna Islands (original in French, with the leptospirosis part available in English in this issue of Inform’ACTION)
2005 Dengue report – New Caledonia, by Dr Alain Berlioz-Arthaud, Pasteur Institute of New Caledonia (original in French – conclusion available in English)
2005 Influenza report – New Caledonia, by Dr Alain Berlioz-Arthaud, Pasteur Institute of New Caledonia (original in French – conclusion available in English)
2005 Dengue fever data from laboratories in French Polynesia, by Dr Pascal Jarno, Department of Health, French Polynesia (original in French – available in English)
2005 Status re port on antibiotic sensitivity in the bacteria isolated by the Louis Malarde Clinical Laboratory in French Polynesia, by Dr Cyril Coudert, Louis Malarde Clinical Laboratory in French Polynesia(available in English and French)
Routine surveillance reports available at http://www.spc.int/phs/pphsn/Surveillance/Routine_reports.htm
2006 Guam Epidemiology Newsletter, produced every week by Dr Robert Haddock from the Office of Epidemiology and Research, Department of Public Health and Social Services, Government of Guam (available in English only)
Surveillance reports for dengue and influenza in New Caledonia (2005 and 2006), by Dr Alain Berlioz-Arthaud, Pasteur Institute of New Caledonia (in French and English) – links under construction (all the reports have been posted on PacNet)
We are grateful to our colleagues from French Polynesia, Guam, New Caledonia and Wallis and Futuna who were willing to share this information with their PPHSN colleagues and take this opportunity to encourage other Pacific Island countries and territories to send us similar reports.