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ECDC Director to visit Israel
On 4-5 September 2019, ECDC Director will go on a country visit to Israel. The ECDC Director will meet the Director General of the Ministry of Health and senior officials from the Public Health Services, International Relations, Israel Center for Disease Control, Health Emergency Operation Center, Institute for Antibiotic Resistance and Infection Control, and from the Center for Infection Control.
ECDC and the Israel Center for Disease Control (ICDC) signed an administrative agreement in June 2012. The objective of this agreement is to enhance the technical cooperation in the fields of prevention and control of communicable diseases, capacity building and support to preparedness and outbreak response. Additional potential activities include ICDC participation in Disease Programme network meetings, sharing of epidemic intelligence data in the framework of EPISOUTH, participation in simulation exercises and exchange of trainees and experts.
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Latest ECDC maps on vector distribution: new information on mosquito species in Europe
The latest ECDC vector maps show the current known distribution of exotic mosquitoes, sandlfies and ticks as of March 2013.
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Epidemiological update: Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), 4 July 2013
Since the last ECDC update on 17 June 2013, 13 new confirmed cases of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) and two deaths have been reported by the Ministry of Health of Saudi Arabia.
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Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae continue to spread in Europe
Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE) are an emerging threat to healthcare. Beside the carbapenems – a last-line class of antibiotics – CPE are resistant to most other antibiotics, leaving few options for the treatment of infected patients. In an effort to assess the nature and scale of CPE spread in Europe, a group of European experts is implementing the European Survey on Carbapenemase-Producing Enterobacteriaceae (EuSCAPE).
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Epidemiological update: outbreak of hepatitis A virus infection in four Nordic countries
As of 6 August 2013, the Danish, Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish public health institutes reported 106 cases associated with the hepatitis A virus (HAV) infection outbreak affecting their countries since 1 October 2012. Of these, 64 were confirmed and 42 were probable.
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First West Nile fever case of 2013 in the EU/EEA found in Attiki, Greece
The first human case of West Nile fever in the EU/EEA has been reported this week. Greece reported one probable case in the Attiki region, more precisely in the eastern part of the region, on 16 July.
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West Nile fever: 12 new cases in the EU and 44 in neighbouring countries reported in the past week
Twelve new cases of West Nile fever were detected in the EU in the week to 15 August 2013. Austria reported its first confirmed case though the place of infection is still under investigation.
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Epidemiological update: Polio virus in sewage and human faecal samples in Israel, August 2013
In May 2013, Israel announced the detection of wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) in the south of the country (1). As reported until mid-August, during the routine monitoring of sewage samples the virus had been found in 67 sewage samples from 24 sampling sites since February 2013.
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West Nile fever weekly update: two new affected provinces in Italy, place of infection identified for Austrian case
Twelve new cases of West Nile fever in the European Union this week, 3 in Italy and 9 in Greece.