This fact sheet was created in collaboration with WHO Regional office for Europe to provide basic information on tuberculosis ahead of the United Nations High-Level Meeting on Tuberculosis 26th September 2018.
This toolkit aims to support infection prevention in schools, with a focus on gastrointestinal diseases, by assisting EU/EEA countries in their communication initiatives for disease prevention in school settings.
Tuberculosis situation in the EU/EEA, 2015: Findings from the joint Tuberculosis surveillance and monitoring in Europe, 2017 report by ECDC and WHO Regional Office for Europe, 24 March 2017
One in five TB patients in EU/EEA has extrapulmonary tuberculosis. This ECDC video documentary featuring two patient stories illustrates how difficult the diagnosis of extrapulmonary TB can be. The disease is easy to miss: symptoms are unspecific and clinicians may not consider it in their differential diagnosis.