Health alerts – infectious diseases

Current infectious disease health alerts for medical practitioners in Western Australia.

WA Health media releases provide further public health information and warnings.

For COVID-19 clinician alerts please visit COVID-19 information for health professionals.

2023

March

• Update on Japanese encephalitis virus and Murray Valley encephalitis in WA – 27 March 2023 (PDF 105KB)
• Japanese encephalitis virus in WA – 16 March 2023 (PDF 141KB)

January

• Increase in invasive Group A Streptococcus infection notifications – 17 January 2023 (PDF 103KB)
• Syphilis outbreak across Western Australia – 4 January 2023 (PDF 131KB)

2022

November

• Toxicity after ingesting large quantities of poppy seeds – 11 November 2022 (PDF52KB)

September

• Monkeypox virus – Clinician Alert #5 – 30 September 2022 (PDF 1.1MB)
• Rabies post-exposure prophylaxis – Clinician Alert – 16 September 2022 (PDF 122KB)

August

• Monkeypox virus – Clinician Alert #4 – 24 August 2022 (PDF 61KB) 
• Shigellosis treatment guidelines – Clinician Alert – 5 August 2022 (PDF 80KB)
• Increase in HIV notifications among Aboriginal people – 10 August 2022 (PDF163KB)

July

• MERS-CoV – Clinician Alert 8 July 2022 (PDF 74KB)
• Monkeypox virus – Clinician Alert #3 – 8 July 2022 (PDF 62KB) 

May

• Monkeypox virus – urgently notifiable disease in WA Clinician Alert #2 – 31 May 2022 (PDF 52KB)
• Monkeypox virus – Clinician Alert #1 – 20 May 2022 (PDF 67KB)
• Paediatric Hepatitis – unknown aetiology in children Infectious disease specialist/gastroenterologists alert – 04 May 2022 (PDF 58KB)

March

• Japanese Encephalitis Virus –  Clinician Alert – 02 March 2022 (PDF 79KB)