A prolonged mumps outbreak among highly vaccinated Aboriginal people in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.

Objective: To describe a prolonged outbreak of mumps in the Kimberley region of Western Australia in 2007-2008.

Design: Descriptive analysis of all mumps cases notified to the WA Notifiable Infectious Diseases Database for the period 1 July 2007 to 30 June 2008.

Main Outcome Measures: Notified cases of mumps by patients' place of residence, age, Indigenous or non-Indigenous ethnicity, vaccination status and method of diagnosis.

Attitudes of WA GPs to chlamydia partner notification - A survey.

Background: Partner notification is essential to interrupt transmission of sexually transmissible infections. We surveyed the attitudes to partner notification of general practitioners seeing 1-5 cases of chlamydia annually.

Methods: We collected data on chlamydia notifications received in Western Australia from 1 July 2007 to 30 June 2008.