For 2020, 28 EU/EEA countries reported 4 824 confirmed cases of Shiga toxin -producing Escherichia coli (STEC) infection. The overall notification rate was 1.6 cases per 100 000 population. The highest notification rates were reported in Ireland, Malta, Denmark, and Norway. The EU/EEA notification rate decreased notably in 2020 compared with 2016-2019 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 7-13 August 2022 and includes updates on West Nile virus infection, COVID-19, monkeypox, measles, Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever, Langya henipavirus, dengue, mass gatherings at the Birmingham 2022 commonwealth games, Vibrio growth, swine influenza and polio.
This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 31 July-6 August and includes updates on West Nile virus infection, monkeypox, COVID-19, cholera, diphteria, anthrax, Vibrio growth, Marburg virus disease, mass gatherings at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth games, MERS-CoV, and Poliovirus.
This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 24 -30 July and includes updates on COVID-19, monkeypox, West Nile virus, increase in hepatitis of unknown aetiology in children, mass gatherings in the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth games, Vibrio growth, Marburg disease, Chikungunya, dengue, and wild poliovirus.
This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 17 - 23 July and includes updates on COVID-19, monkeypox, West Nile virus, Marburg virus disease, polio, cholera, Vibrio growth in the Baltic Sea and mass gathering for Hajj.
In 2018, 3 233 confirmed cases of invasive meningococcal disease (IMD), including 324 deaths, were reported in 30 European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) Member States.