Plain language summary

Communicable diseases surveillance highlights (vaccine preventable diseases, arboviruses, hepatitis A, meningococcal infection, salmonella, respiratory syncytial virus, rotavirus), and surveillance outcomes from several reporting series as follows: National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System tables, 27 May to 23 June 1998; Laboratory Serology and Virology Reporting Scheme tables, 21 May to 17 June 1998; Australian Sentinel Practice Research Network report tables, weeks 21 to 24, 1998; National influenza surveillance 1998 (year to date) Sentinel chicken surveillance program, reporting period April and May 1998; Serious adverse events following vaccination surveillance scheme, reporting period 28 April to 1 July 1998; HIV and AIDS surveillance, reporting period 1 to 31 January 1998, assessed as at 30 April 1998.