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The Health Protection Agency (HPA) is aware of a further case of confirmed Legionnaires’ disease in UK residents who have travelled to Corfu since August 2011, bringing the total to 14.
The HPA is also aware of one case of the non-pneumonic form of the infection in a returning UK traveller from Corfu.
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This review encompasses the results of a number of epidemiological studies, detailed monitoring results from a major project funded by the Environment Agency, and advice sought from the Committee on Toxicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment. The HPA concludes that there has been no new evidence to change the previous advice that living close to a well-managed landfill site does not pose a significant risk to human health. Download the full report.
The HIV and AIDS new diagnoses database at the Centre for Infections collects information on new HIV diagnoses, first AIDS diagnoses and deaths in HIV infected individuals.
Injecting Drug Users are vulnerable to a diverse range of infectious and communicable diseases. The HPA conducts an unlinked anonymous survey of HIV and Hepatitis in Injecting Drug Users (IDUs) to measure the changing prevalence of infections in this at risk group.
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