Chickenpox a notifiable disease?
I was printing off a copy of the updated HPA guidance on infection control and it shows chickenpox as being a notifiable disease? Has it always been or is that new? Does it mean doctors have to notify HPA every time they diagnose a child?
It says childminders have to notify them if there was an outbreak in their setting but doesn't say how many children that means. If all 3 children got it at the same time would that be an outbreak?
http://www.publichealth.hscni.net/si...ols_poster.pdf