This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 25 September to 1 October 2016 and includes updates on rubella, measles, polio, Zika virus, yellow fever and West Nile virus.
The main objectives of the session were to: raise awareness about the value and opportunities of life-course vaccination, build understanding of the challenges faced at decision-making level to assess such a shift, discuss the evidence necessary to help prioritising vaccinations across age groups, prompt reflection on relevant ways forward and action at EU and national level.
Location:Gastein – Austria / European Health Forum Gastein (EHFG) 2016
The aim of this workshop was to prompt reflection among key stakeholders on the benefits and challenges of implementing a life-course approach to vaccination.
This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 18-24 September and includes updates on polio, Zika virus, and West Nile virus.
The main objective of the course was to strengthen capacity in EU Member States for control of healthcare-associated infections due to multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) in acute health care settings and to promote the broadest possible implementation of appropriate methods.
ECDC comment on the preliminary report by de Araújo et al. of a case-control study aiming to test the hypothesis of the association between the occurrence of microcephaly and Zika virus.