This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 15-21 December 2019 and includes updates on Ebola virus disease, dengue, chikungunya, influenza, cholera, and polio.
In 2018, in the EU/EEA countries: 51 cases of Zika virus (ZIKV) infection were reported; no autochthonous vector-borne cases of ZIKV infection were reported; 56.8% percent of ZIKV infection in EU/EEA travellers originated from the Caribbean, 22.3% from South-East Asia, and 11.3% from the Americas; there were no reports of cases involving sexual or vertical transmission of ZIKV.
On 3 August 2015, Spain notified a case of chikungunya virus infection in a resident of the city of Gandía in the autonomous community of Valencia. On 11 September 2015, authorities in Spain acknowledged that the case was a false positive. This rapid risk assessment reviews the later discarded chikungunya case reported from Spain without travel history to endemic areas and the risk of possible onwards transmission.
This case definition was published in Commission Implementing Decisions (EU) 2018/945 of 22 June 2018 on the communicable diseases and related special health issues to be covered by epidemiological surveillance as well as relevant case definitions.
This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 17-23 November 2019 and includes updates on chikungunya, dengue, Ebola virus disease, influenza, West Nile virus and Polio.
This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 27 October-2 November 2019 and includes updates on Ebola virus disease, mass gathering monitoring in Japan, MERS-CoV, West Nile virus and Zika fever.
On 30 October, French authorities reported a third autochthonous case of Zika virus (ZIKV) disease in Hyères city, Var department, France. The case had no travel history to Zika-endemic countries.
This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 20-26 October 2019 and includes updates on chikungunya, cholera, dengue, Ebola virus disease, influenza, mass gathering monitoring in Japan, West Nile virus and Zika fever.