From 20 June to 23 November, ECDC has published on its website weekly updates on spatial distribution of West Nile fever cases in the European Union and neighbouring countries. Cases reported in the EU included confirmed and probable cases with positive laboratory result as per the EU case definition and all reported cases outside the EU.
Following an invitation from Greek authorities, ECDC Director Marc Sprenger and experts from the ECDC Programmes for Sexually Transmitted Infections including HIV and blood-borne infections and Antimicrobial Resistance and Healthcare-associated Infections will visit Greece on 29 and 30 November 2012.
The West Nile transmission season has come to its end; no new recent cases have been reported in the EU for three consecutive weeks, since week 43 (22-28 October).
No new human cases of West Nile fever have been reported in the EU since last week. In the EU neighbouring countries, Ukraine saw for the first time this year West Nile fever cases.
The sixth European Scientific Conference on Applied Infectious Disease Epidemiology (ESCAIDE) opened today at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre (EICC).