More frequent heatwaves and flooding, longer and hotter summers - all of these factors created more favourable conditions for mosquitos to thrive. Watch our animation, learn more and stay safe!
The Asian Tiger, Asian Bush and Yellow Fever mosquitos have made themselves at home in Europe throughout the last years, bringing with them some of the more exotic diseases, rarely seen in the EU before.
Hepatitis E is one of the most common causes of acute hepatitis in the EU/EEA but currently not notifiable at EU level. This presentation summarises ECDC's work on the topic and survey results on hepatitis E on 2005 to 2015 data.
World Hepatitis Day is marked on 28 July each year to increase the awareness and understanding of viral hepatitis. The five known hepatitis viruses are types A, B, C, D and E
Zika virus is transmitted to people through the bite of an infected Aedes mosquito. But there are other, although rare, modes of transmission. What can be done to prevent infection?