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Communicable disease threats report, 1-7 December 2019, week 49
This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 1-7 December 2019 and includes updates on Ebola virus disease, Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus, West Nile virus, monkeypox, influenza and diphtheria.
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Communicable disease threats report, 12-18 May 2019, week 20
This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period from 12-18 May 2019 and includes updates on poliomyelitis, chikungunya virus disease and dengue, measles, monkeypox, dengue, Ebola virus disease, influenza, Rift Valley fever, Crimean-Congo haemmorhagic fever and Legionnaires' disease.
- Belgium
- Chikungunya virus disease
- Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Dengue
- Ebola haemorrhagic fever
- Ebola outbreak - North Kivu, Ituri, DRC
- Europe
- France
- Influenza
- Influenza in humans, seasonal
- La Réunion
- Legionnaires’ disease
- Measles
- Monkeypox
- Poliomyelitis
- Public health threat
- Rift Valley fever
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Communicable disease threats report, 23-29 September 2018, week 39
This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 23-29 September 2018 and includes updates on chikungunya and dengue, West Nile virus, Ebola virus disease and monkeypox.
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Communicable disease threats report, 16-22 September 2018, week 38
This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 16-22 September 2018 and includes updates on leptospirosis, West Nile virus, Ebola virus disease, cholera, monkeypox and Legionnaires' disease.
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Rapid risk assessment: Monkeypox cases in the UK imported by travellers returning from Nigeria, 2018
The risks assessed in this document are of the introduction and further spread of monkeypox in the EU/EEA, infection with regards to different settings (e.g. healthcare, community, etc.) and transmission through SoHO.
Factsheet for health professionals on monkeypox
Human monkeypox (MPX) is a zoonotic viral disease caused by the Monkeypox virus (MPXV). The clinical presentation is similar to smallpox. Human monkeypox causes outbreaks in the tropical rainforest regions of Central and West Africa and is not a notifiable disease at the EU/EEA level. Human monkeypox was recognised as a human disease in 1970.