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2016 Notifiable Disease Report

03 October 2017

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The 2016 Notifiable Disease Report is now available.

The annual notifiable disease report for 2016 was prepared as part of a Ministry of Health contract for scientific services and is produced with the continued support of staff in the public health services in New Zealand who provide data from their regions.

The material presented in the report was prepared by the Health Intelligence Team and other staff from the Health Programme at ESR and provides a summary of the key trends in notifiable diseases for 2016 from the notifiable disease cases reported.

View the report here.