Departmental
Departmental Media Releases
This section of the website contains Departmental media releases from January to December 2005.
Date: 5/10/2005
Title: Walking helps the planning process
Description:
Australia’s Chief Medical Officer, Professor John Horvath, says walking helps the planning process. He says exercise promotes better health, and he encourages as many Australians as possible to try the experience by walking on 7 October, National Walk to Work Day.
Date: 22/9/2005
Title: Bird flu update
Description:
The Chief Medical Officer of the Department of Health and Ageing said today that the Australian Government is closely monitoring the bird flu situation in Indonesia and welcomes the Indonesian decision to declare an 'extraordinary situation'.
Date: 31/8/2005
Title: Flu pandemic protection for healthcare workers
Description:
A new instructional DVD on measures to better prepare health care and frontline workers to minimise the spread of infection during an influenza pandemic was released today by Australia’s Chief Medical Officer, Professor John Horvath.
Date: 26/5/2005
Title: Australia’s 2003 communicable diseases status report released
Description:
National immunisation programs have significantly reduced the rate of preventable diseases in Australia while the number of reported sexually acquired infections continued to increase, according to a new national disease surveillance report.
Date: 4/3/2005
Title: Flu vaccine supplies
Description:
Australian health authorities announced today that the Government had secured extra flu vaccine from CSL to make up for a shortfall in available supply from Sanofi Pasteur.
Date: 25/2/2005
Title: Australia well prepared to combat bird flu
Description:
Australia is one of the most prepared countries in the world to detect and manage Avian Influenza if it enters the country, the Australian Government’s Chief Medical Officer, Professor John Horvath, said today.
Date: 13/2/2005
Title: Last civilian medical team returns from Tsunami affected region
Description:
Australia’s Chief Medical Officer, Professor John Horvath, has welcomed back to Australia the last of the community based medical teams sent to Tsunami affected regions of Asia.
Date: 21/1/2005
Title: Updated travel health advice for Tsunami affected areas
Description:
Australia’s Chief Medical Officer, Professor John Horvath, has today provided updated advice on health-related issues for Australians travelling to countries affected by the 26 December Indian Ocean tsunami.
Date: 13/1/2005
Title: Update on deployment of Australian medical teams in tsunami affected areas
Description:
The Australian Government’s latest civilian medical teams have arrived in Aceh in Indonesia with another team being assembled and on standby, Australia’s Chief Medical Officer, Professor John Horvath, announced today.
Date: 4/1/2005
Title: Australia sends another medical team to tsunami affected Indonesia
Description:
The Australian Government will send another volunteer medical team to Aceh in Indonesia by the end of the week.
