Urgent action is required to improve efforts to prevent hepatitis B and C infections in the EU/EEA and the UK if the region is to meet the 2020 targets for the elimination of viral hepatitis as a serious threat to public health. Significant gaps in the reported data in relation to prevalence and prevention of HBV and HCV in EU/EEA and the UK present a major challenge to monitoring progress towards the targets for elimination of hepatitis.
This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 6 September - 12 September 2020 and includes updates on COVID-19, Ebola virus disease, West Nile virus, Measles, Tick-borne encephalitis and polio.
This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 30 August - 5 Sep 2020 and includes updates on COVID-19, Ebola virus disease, MERS, Dengue, CCHF, West Nile Virus.
This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 29 September-5 October 2019 and includes updates on COVID-19 associated with SARS-CoV-2, Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic fever – Europe – 2020, West Nile virus - Monitoring season 2020, Monitoring of the environmental suitability of Vibrio growth in the Baltic Sea - Summer 2020, Ebola virus disease - eleventh outbreak - Democratic Republic of the Congo - 2020 and dengue in the French Antilles - 2020.
ECDC coordinates the enhanced surveillance for hepatitis A, B and C to help countries define epidemiological trends or transmission patterns among newly diagnosed cases.
World Hepatitis Day on 28 July provides an opportunity each year to increase the awareness and understanding of viral hepatitis.
Approximately four in five people living with hepatitis B and three out of four people with hepatitis C infection across the European Union and European Economic Area (EU/EEA) and the UK have not yet been diagnosed. This is a major obstacle on the way towards the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) for health in 2030 as highlighted by ECDC on occasion of World Hepatitis Day.