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This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 15-21 August 2021 and includes updates on COVID-19, West Nile virus, Vibrio growth, Ebola virus, and Zika.

This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period11-17 July 2021 and includes updates on the UEFA European Football Championship 2020 (2021), COVID-19, West Nile virus, plague and Zika.

For 2019, in the EU/EEA countries, 71 cases of Zika virus (ZIKV) disease were reported. Five cases of ZIKV disease were reported to have been locally-acquired, three autochthonous vector-borne cases, one case of sexual transmission and one case of non-mosquito borne transmission. 92% of cases of ZIKV disease with known importation status were from returning travellers.

In 2018, in the EU/EEA countries: 51 cases of Zika virus (ZIKV) infection were reported; no autochthonous vector-borne cases of ZIKV infection were reported; 56.8% percent of ZIKV infection in EU/EEA travellers originated from the Caribbean, 22.3% from South-East Asia, and 11.3% from the Americas; there were no reports of cases involving sexual or vertical transmission of ZIKV.

This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 27 October-2 November 2019 and includes updates on Ebola virus disease, mass gathering monitoring in Japan, MERS-CoV, West Nile virus and Zika fever.

This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 20-26 October 2019 and includes updates on chikungunya, cholera, dengue, Ebola virus disease, influenza, mass gathering monitoring in Japan, West Nile virus and Zika fever.

On 1 October 2019, a case of locally acquired Zika virus (ZIKV) disease in France (Hyères city, Var department) was laboratory confirmed. To date, and based on ECDC’s epidemiological assessment, the probability of ongoing vector-borne local transmission in Hyères (and surrounding areas) is considered very low because current evidence does not indicate the existence of a more extensive cluster of ZIKV cases.

This issue covers the period 6-12 October 2019 and includes updates on Ebola virus disease, extensively drug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae, West Nile virus, mass gathering monitoring (Japan, Rugby World Cup 2019), Poliomyelitis, Measles, Zika virus disease, seasonal influenza, XDR-Typhoid fever.