21 Nov 2016 | Our stories
Wash your hands all you want. Don’t touch things. Clean your cuts and grazes. Be careful all you can… but it won’t make any difference. An open wound will grow; it will cause rashes on your body and your skin to blister and weep. Once it’s in your blood stream, it...
21 Nov 2016 | Our stories
HIV seems like a scourge of the eighties, but today new HIV diagnoses and the costs of medication are escalating out of control in New Zealand. The world’s most dangerous infectious disease epidemic of the modern era is being revived, fuelled by invisibility,...
21 Nov 2016 | Our stories
Infertility is defined as the inability for a couple having regular unprotected sexual intercourse to have a baby. Globally, the rate of fertility is declining but infertility still affects one in seven couples in New Zealand. In general, humans are generally not...
21 Nov 2016 | Our stories
In the context of World Antibiotic Awareness week last week (November 14-20) and efforts to raise the awareness of infectious diseases in New Zealand, it is useful to include a discussion on viruses. Although few treatments and vaccines are currently available for...
21 Nov 2016 | Our stories
Below is a letter from Deputy Director Dr Siouxsie Wiles to the Ministry of Health requesting the Ministry’s assistance in using infectious disease data from the Public Health Surveillance website coordinated by the The Institute of Environmental Science and...
