Influenza pandemics, whether mild, moderate or severe, affect a large proportion of the population and require a multisectoral response over several months or even years. For this reason, countries develop plans describing their strategies for responding to a pandemic supported by operational plans at national and subnational levels.
This meeting was designed to offer a place to exchange the latest information on into the development of narcolepsy following vaccination with one of the 2009 adjuvanted influenza A(H1N1) vaccines.
Location:Geneva, Switzerland
Organized by:International Alliance for Biological Standardisation and the World Health Organization
This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 25-31 January 2015, and includes updates on botulism, influenza, measles, rubella, avian influenza, Ebola virus and polio.
In November 2014, the Pharmacovigilance Centre of Netherlands (Lareb) provided an updated overview of Dutch cases of narcolepsy reported to have a link to Pandemrix.