In 2024 and as of 30 of April, approximately 240 000 CHIKVD cases and over 90 deaths have been reported worldwide. A total of 18 countries reported CHIKVD cases from the Americas (11), Asia (6), and Africa (1).
Since the beginning of 2024, over 7.5 million dengue cases and over 3 000 dengue-related deaths have been reported from 73 countries/territories. Most cases globally have been reported from the WHO PAHO region, with Brazil reporting most cases.
This report presents the results of a study that dealt specifically with effective communication around the benefit and risk balance of vaccination people’s risk perceptions around vaccines and diseases, and approaches to enhancing communication about the safety and effectiveness of vaccines.
ECDC, DG SANTE and EFSA, supported by a consortium composed of Epiconcept and Integrated Quality Laboratory Services (IQLS), jointly carried out a country visit to Kosovo* from 9 to 13 October 2023, which is part of ECDC’s accession support activities to contribute to the advancement of a One Health approach against antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in the Western Balkans.
Pertussis is an endemic disease in the EU/EEA and worldwide. Every three to five years, larger epidemics are expected even with high vaccination coverage.
Diverse groups of experts helped assess the relationships between drivers on an extended time-horizon: assessing either no connection, some connection or a strong connection between two drivers along any of their possible future trajectories.
This protocol describes a survey undertaken to acquire a snapshot of the distribution of Clostridioides difficile strains in tertiary acute care hospitals in the European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) in 2022–2023