Health Protection Surveillance Centre

Acute flaccid paralysis – also known as acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) – is a rare illness in which certain muscles in the body become paralysed. Child(...)

Gardeners have been warned the summer of dry weather and high temperatures may increase the risk of picking up infections from compost. Compost and (...)

The recent outbreak of measles is spreading across the country, with 40 cases now confirmed by the Health Service Executive (HSE). The outbreak, whic(...)

Flu activity in the Republic is currently at record levels, and more people have been hospitalised from the condition this season than ever before. T(...)

A white-tailed sea eagle found dead in Co Tipperary was carrying the only case detected in Ireland so far of a highly infectious strain of bird flu, i(...)

Seven people have died from the flu so far this winter season, new figures confirm. The latest tally is included in a weekly monitoring report from t(...)

Health officials have issued a warning about an outbreak of adult measles in Co Cork. The HSE is also attempting to trace people who may have come i(...)

Six more people died from swine flu in the first week of March, bringing the 2015/2016 seasonal total to 26. Overall, 38 people have died from variou(...)

The HSE is carrying out a survey of gay and bisexual men in an attempt to reduce the high levels of HIV among men who have sex with men.This group acc(...)

The number of mumps cases this year has more than doubled over 2013, prompting medical experts to urge people to get vaccinated against the infection.(...)