Meningitis and Septicaemia cases 2021- 2024

Request 708455816

I’m looking at obtaining the information from you on the amount of cases in the island of the following:

Viral and bacterial Meningitis a b and c

Septicemia

For 2021, 2022,2023,2024

Response​

Health and Care Jersey (HCJ) laboratory data records fewer than five cases of culture positive meningococcal bacteraemia or cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) meningococcal isolates* between 01 January 2021 and 31 December 2024. As numbers are small, disclosure control is applied to protect the privacy of individuals, and a further breakdown by year cannot be provided. Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied to protect the personal information of individuals concerned.

*CSF isolates are not confirmed cases of bacterial meningitis.

Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) from both patients with possible meningitis and those with no evidence of infection (but with other symptoms or conditions requiring such analysis) is sent to HCJ’s laboratory for examination. 114 CSF samples were received for culture by HCJ’s laboratory in 2024. Figures for CSF samples received for culture from 2021 to 2023 are available in Freedom of Information responses published to www.gov.je:

19 February 2024:

gov.je/government/freedomofinformation/pages/foi.aspx?ReportID=7179

03 July 2023:

gov.je/government/freedomofinformation/pages/foi.aspx?ReportID=6532​

Article applied

Article 25 - Personal information

(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018.

(2) Information is absolutely exempt information if –

(a) it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is not the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018; and

(b) its supply to a member of the public would contravene any of the data protection principles, as defined in that Law.