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Important travel advice for parent of young children.

So glad we were able to get this 6 month old the additional free MMR vaccine to protect her from measles on our summer holidays. No side effects and no hassle. Free for any infants 6-11 months travelling abroad this summer 😎 HSE National Immunisation Office (NIO) www2.hse.ie/conditions/mmr….

Substantial IT investment is needed across the HSE Ireland. This is plainly obvious. We do not need to wait for a catastrophe to take place to figure out in retrospect at an enquiry that a national Electronic Healthcare Record could have avoided the catastrophe, it is

Gravity? Never heard of it.

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10 infant deaths in 2024 for a vaccine preventable illness. Have seen so much of this disease in 2024. Please get the pertussis vaccine in the 2nd trimester of EACH pregnancy. cannot overstate how awful this disease is in newborn babies & we have only supportive therapy to offer

Positive uptake of the RSV immunisation programme for newborn babies, protecting them when they are most vulnerable to serious RSV-related illness. I encourage all parents of babies born between September and February 2025 to ensure their baby is protected.

Delighted and so proud of our Dept Department of Public Health HSE South West awarded National Infectious Disease Project of the Year last night for our Health Protection Duty Room by Hospital Professional News. Great recognition for all the hard work of our dedicated staff 🙏🏻🥳 HSE Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) Cork Kerry Community Healthcare HSE National Immunisation Office (NIO)

Congratulations to Dr. Peter Barrett & the Health Protection Team from Cork & Kerry on winning the GSK ViiV Infectious Diseases Project of the Year honour! Presented by Denise Murphy, HIV Portfolio Lead at GSK ViiV. #HPHs2024 ViiV Healthcare GSK

This is great news. It’s a little known fact that public health teams around the country spend a lot of time trying to control chickenpox outbreaks in crowded, high risk settings, to keep it away from immunocompromised people, pregnant women and newborns. The disease also has

You only need to care for one child who dies or survives with life changing injuries from secondary sepsis after chicken pox to be absolutely overjoyed at this news. It’s a vaccine I’ve recommended for friends & family since it became available but has been expensive until now 🥲

I don’t hate vapes but it’s absolutely wild that it’s legal to place tobacco products with colourful packaging and names like “Cotton Candy” directly next to sweets clearly targeting young children.

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Really interesting paper in this month’s Eurosurveillance describing the very challenging situation of a leprosy case with no obvious source in a high-risk congregate setting in Ireland. Very nice work Peter Barrett Corinna Sadlier and team 👏👏 Lack of standardised agreement on

.World Health Organization (WHO) expresses deep concern about the implications of the United States government’s immediate funding pause for #HIV programmes in low- and middle-income countries. These programmes provide access to life-saving HIV therapy to more than 30 million people worldwide. This

Ireland has the highest rate of VTEC/STEC E.Coli in Europe. It’s a particularly nasty strain that can, and does, cause kidney failure in children, and sometimes adults. We see it all the time in the public health units, and private wells are very frequently the source. Great to