Contents: Fireworks-related injury survey report 2018; Exotic mosquito detected in domestic port area in Darwin; Community engagement fundamental for effective delivery of care; Polio outbreak in Papua New Guinea; An outbreak of suspected food poisoning after eating street food, Dili, July 2018; Response to the CDC article—TB in animals. Transmission at the human-animal interface, Nick Georges and Vicki Krause, CDC, Darwin; NT CDC Conference 2018—Partnerships in Public Health; Abstracts from peer reviewed published articles related to the Northern Territory; Northern Territory malaria notifications; Northern Territory notifications of disease by onset date and district; Graphs of selected diseases and STIs; Comments on notifications; Let’s stop meningococcal disease poster; Immunisation coverage; Disease Control staff updates; Vale Jan Holt.