Virus WAtch is a weekly electronic publication by the Communicable Disease Control Directorate (CDCD) and key collaborators. It provides a brief summary of General Practice and Hospital Emergency Department sentinel surveillance data on influenza-like illness, gastroenteritis and varicella-zoster disease, together with relevant laboratory information, to alert health care workers in WA to important circulating viruses. General Practice data are collected by members of the Sentinel Practitioners Network of Western Australia - SPN(WA). Emergency Department data are provided by Perth Hospital Emergency Departments via the Emergency Department Information System (EDIS). Viral laboratory data are obtained from PathWest laboratories at QEII Medical Centre and Princess Margaret Hospital for Children, as well as via notification data sent by all WA laboratories to CDCD, WA Department of Health.
Current edition
Virus WAtch week ending 05 February 2012 (129KB)
Previous editions
Virus WAtch week ending 29 January 2012 (129KB)
Virus WAtch week ending 15 January 2012 (129KB)
Virus WAtch week ending 8 January 2012 (129KB)
Virus WAtch week ending 11 December 2011 (129KB)
Virus WAtch week ending 4 December 2011 (129KB)
Virus WAtch week ending 27 November 2011 (130KB)
Virus WAtch week ending 20 November 2011 (PDF 133KB)
Virus WAtch week ending 13 November 2011 (PDF 132KB)
Virus Watch reports date back to June 2009. If you would like a copy of an archived report please call (08) 9388 4880 or email Virus.Watch@health.wa.gov.au
Archived editions of Virus News
Archived editions of Emergency Department Sentinel Surveillance (EDSS) News
Sentinel Practitioners Network (WA)
