The topic for the 2014 World Health Day was vector-borne diseases.

This was the first regional meeting on West Nile fever real time surveillance and good practices on vector-borne diseases. The overall objective was to support the exchange of experience between EU and non-EU neighbouring countries on the surveillance of West Nile fever and the lessons learnt since 2011.

Joint Meeting of the EFSA Animal Health and Welfare Network and the ECDC Emerging and Vector-borne Disease Network on West Nile fever virus surveillance in the European Union