NewsDesk @bactiman63 ESR (Institute of Environmental Science and Research) and Manatū Hauora have this week established routine poliovirus testing in wastewater following a successful three-month pilot. Director...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 New Zealand health officials confirmed the country has had its first case of rabies. The overseas traveller died from the disease last week, but this person posed no health risk to...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 The New Zealand Ministry of Health reports a measles case has been confirmed in the country for the first time since the 2019 outbreak. The person is an adult living in Auckland....

NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews New Zealand health officials reported the death Saturday of a woman in her 90s who was a confirmed case of COVID-19 at North Shore hospital in Auckland. The woman had...

By NewsDesk @bactiman63 The New Zealand Ministry of Health reported 70 new cases of COVID-19 today; all are in Auckland. The total number of community cases in Auckland is now 333 and in Wellington it...

By NewsDesk @bactiman63 The New Zealand Ministry of Health recorded 41 new cases of COVID-19 today, bringing the total number of cases in the community outbreak to 148. Of these 41 new cases, 19 are...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Auckland health officials reported a positive case of COVID-19 in a 58-year-old man who was unvaccinated–the first locally acquired case in six months. This...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The Auckland Regional Public Health Service posted Tuesday on their Facebook page: There’s chickenpox about in Auckland, and it’s very contagious. The...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Auckland Regional Public Health Service (ARPHS) is contacting students and staff who may have been exposed to a student with infectious tuberculosis (TB) disease at...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 For the second time in two weeks, Auckland, New Zealand (pop. 1.7 million) will go into lockdown mode after a case of COVID-19, according to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. The...