Dr. John Cuddihy:

The context here is that in the public health departments the individual cases are notified to the computerised infectious disease reporting, CIDR, system. These are investigated and linked to outbreaks. We then have the outbreak reports, which are broken down into all the various different settings where they may have occurred. We publish weekly outbreak highlights reports on the HPSC website.

From that we have seen the most common setting for outbreaks in recent weeks and months has been private houses. We have 1,263 open outbreaks in private houses with 349-----