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Welcome to the Media Centre. Here you can access the latest news, events, speeches and videos produced by ECDC.

 LATEST NEWS

21 Feb 2012

The latest European Monthly Measles Monitoring (EMMO) provides analyses of last year's measles surveillance data. In 2011, 30,567 cases of measles were reported by 29 European countries, roughly same number of cases last year but a four-fold increase compared to 2009 (7 175). Only two countries in Europe remained measles-free in 2011, Iceland and Cyprus.

21 Feb 2012

The coordination of European FWD outbreaks can be difficult to manage. In order to help Member State countries with the task, ECDC is launching an online toolkit which provides investigators with a series of tools for the investigation of an outbreak that involves at least two EU Member States.
21 Feb 2012

The risk for transmission of Foot and Mouth disease (FMD) to individuals visiting FMD affected areas is extremely low, if consumption of products from infected animals or direct contact with such  animals is avoided, concludes a ECDC rapid risk assessment issued today.
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 LATEST PRESS RELEASES

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No signs for a decline in HIV transmission across Europe: new ECDC-WHO/Euro report
30 Nov 2011
Resistance to last-line antibiotics is increasingly established in Europe
17 Nov 2011
ECDC publishes Annual epidemiological report 2011
10 Nov 2011
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 LATEST SPEECHES

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EU action on Antimicrobial Resistance – European Antibiotic Awareness Day
Welcome address at Eurovaccine 2011
Preventing HIV and viral Hepatitis infections among people who inject drugs
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 UPCOMING EVENTS

Training workshop on vaccine safety for Member States, building on the experience obtained in the ECDC vaccine safety project VAESCO
EPIET/EUPHEM Multivariable analysis module
EPIET/EUPHEM Time series analysis module
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