Weekly releases (1997–2007) - Volume 10, Issue 49, 08 December 2005

In Switzerland, it is mandatory that testing laboratories send anonymous notifications of confirmed positive HIV test results to the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health

An international outbreak control team (OCT) led by Health Protection Scotland investigated an outbreak of Salmonella Goldcoast

In early November 2005, an increase in cases of cryptosporidiosis was noted in the two counties of Gwynedd and Anglesey in northwest Wales in the United Kingdom