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This year, ECDC is publishing a guidance proposal to establish and implement infection prevention and control programmes in healthcare facilities and introducing hyFive, a digital hand hygiene monitoring tool for healthcare settings.

A cluster of severe acute respiratory illness, including three deaths and one severely ill individual, has been reported among passengers on a cruise ship travelling in the Atlantic and registered in the Netherlands.

Get the chance to share your research with the public health community in Europe and beyond. Deadline for submissions is 18 May.

A human case of avian influenza A(H9N2) infection in a returning traveller from a non-European country where the virus has previously been identified in birds, has been reported in the Lombardy region of Italy.