This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 5 - 11 November 2023 and includes updates on SARS-CoV-2 variants, an overview of respiratory virus epidemiology in the EU/EEA, West Nile Virus, measles, diphtheria, Middle East respiratory virus syndrome, chikungunya, and dengue.
This report presents the results of the ninth round of the external quality assessment (EQA-9) scheme for Listeria monocytogenes (L. monocytogenes) typing, organised for national public health reference laboratories (NPHRLs) providing data to the Food- and Waterborne Diseases and Zoonoses Network (FWD-Net), managed by ECDC.
From 1 January–24 October 2023, 335 laboratory-confirmed Salmonella Enteritidis ST11 cases belonging to three distinct microbiological clusters have been reported in 14 EU/EEA countries, the United Kingdom and the United States, affecting all age groups.
This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 8-14 October 2023 and includes updates on hepatitis A, influenza A(H5N1), COVID-19, the Rugby World Cup 2023, West Nile virus, measles and diphtheria.
This report presents the results of the 11th round of the external quality assessment (EQA-11) scheme for typing of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC).
This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 24-30 September 2023 and includes updates on severe floods, Severe floods, Avian influenza, human cases with swine influenza, COVID-19, West Nile Virus, Cholera and mass gathering monitoring for the Rugby World Cup 2023.
On 18 September 2023, 13 designated experts from the Western Balkans and Türkiye attended the 12th FWD-Net meeting at the European Chemical Agency (ECHA) in Helsinki, Finland.