2014, the focus of World Health day was on vector-borne diseases. World Health Day is a worldwide initiative celebrated every year on 7 April to mark the anniversary of the founding of the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1948.
The Hellenic Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (KEELPNO) has reported three autochthonous cases of Plasmodium vivax malaria up to 16 November 2013.
This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 17-23 November 2013, and includes updates on cholera, influenza, malaria, MERS and polio.
Pieter Smit is a microbiologist by training, with a specialisation in international public health. He completed his PhD at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine before joining the EUPHEM programme.