HPS publishes annual report on overseas infectious intestinal disease in 2018

Health Protection Scotland (HPS) has published the annual surveillance report, on 11 June 2019, describing the overseas outbreaks of infectious intestinal disease in 2018.

This report presents information from the surveillance system that HPS uses to collect and disseminate information on potential outbreaks of infectious intestinal disease believed to have been acquired abroad. A potential outbreak of infectious intestinal disease occurring abroad is defined as two or more confirmed cases of infection, or at least one confirmed case where others are alleged to have been ill.