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In addition:

• the stand-alone key points section has been removed, and key changes are inserted into the relevant disease chapters
• the disease chapters have been reordered to match the order in which the vaccines are given on the Schedule (eg, the pneumococcal chapter is now before measles and after poliomyelitis)
• there are new chapters for human papillomavirus and rotavirus
• the Planning Immunisation Catch-ups (Appendix 2), Immunisation Standards (Appendix 3) and Authorisation of Vaccinators (Appendix 4) appendices have been revised
• the disease case definitions have been moved from the General Considerations chapter to a new appendix (Appendix 9: Notifiable Disease Case Definitions and Laboratory Tests)
• there is a new Measles Specimen Collection appendix (Appendix 10)
• the meningococcal invasive disease appendix has been removed.

Please note that the Handbook refers to two Ministry of Health documents (the Communicable Diseases Control Manual 2011 and the Technical Guidelines for Mantoux Testing and BCG Vaccination 2011)which are not yet available, but are expected to be published during 2011.

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