Following a peak at week 51/2022, influenza activity had been decreasing across the Region until week 4/2023, before rising again to fluctuate around 25% positivity between weeks 6 and 11/2023 and decreasing below 10% positivity in week 16/2023.
At the start of European Immunization Week, the ECDC report “Poliomyelitis situation update” reveals that between 2012 and 2021, approximately 2.4 million children in the EU/EEA may have not received three doses of polio-containing vaccines on time. Additionally, the newly published ECDC “Measles Annual Epidemiological Report 2022” highlights the risks when having pockets of an under-vaccinated population or groups not immunised at all.
The European Region was declared polio-free in 2002. Since then, renewed circulation of wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) and outbreaks of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus (cVDPV) has been observed globally.
Following a peak at week 51/2022, influenza activity had been decreasing across the Region until week 4/2023 before rising again to fluctuate around 25% positivity between weeks 6 and 11/2023 and decreasing again to 10% positivity in week 15/2023.
This issue of the CDTR covers the period 16-22 April 2023 and includes updates on influenza, avian influenza, Marburg virus disease, COVID-19 and poliomyelitis.
Following a peak at week 51/2022, influenza activity had been decreasing across the Region until week 4/2023, before rising again to fluctuate around 25% positivity between weeks 6 and 11/2023 and decreasing again to 15% positivity for week 14/2023.
This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 26 March - 1 April 2023 and includes updates on Iatrogenic botulism exposure in Türkiye, COVID-19, group A streptococcal infection, influenza, swine influenza. Marburg virus disease and poliomyelitis.
Following a peak at week 51/2022, influenza activity had been decreasing across the Region until week 4/2023 when it reached 22% positivity before rising again to fluctuate around 25% positivity between weeks 6 and 11/2023 before decreasing again to 22% positivity in week 12/2023.
The December 2022 characterisation report, was the third report for the 2022-2023 influenza season. Currently, as of week 08/2023, 231 015 detections have been reported.
This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 19-25 March 2023 and includes updates on Marburg virus disease, iatrogenic botulism, COVID-19, Influenza, Group A streptococcal infection, cholera, poliomyelitis, measles, and extensively drug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa.