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Subscriber only A team of Rockhampton researchers has completed an international research project on COVID-19 outbreaks in residential aged care facilities. The research was published in the Lancet Group Open access journal EClinicalMedicine, among the world s oldest and best-known general medical journals. CQ Health s Public Health and Clinical Research director Professor Gulam Khandaker led the research team that went through more than 5000 documents. It identified 49 studies from 14 countries across four continents, sorting through data on 214,380 residents in 8502 care homes, with 25,567 confirmed cases of COVID-19. One of the researchers, a joint CQ Public Health Unit and CQUniversity PhD student Rashidul Hashan, was writing the paper from his hospital bed in Bangladesh while being treated for COVID-19.
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spent much of 2020 keeping an eye on syphilis, gonorrhoea, and influenza. As of December 6, there had been 34 notifications of syphilis in Central Queensland, compared with 29 last year and 14 in 2016. A continuing outbreak of infectious syphilis in the area was declared in April 2019. Gonorrhoea notifications also increased - there were 293 gonorrhoea notifications in 2020, compared with 214 last year and 76 in 2016. The count of laboratory-confirmed influenza was 289 this year, compared with 3,959 in 2019 and 974 in 2016. Communicable disease notifications to CQ Public Health Unit from January 1 to December 6, 2020. Public Health director Dr Gulam Khandaker said syphilis and gonorrhoea could have serious complications if not treated early and people may not be aware that they were