This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 29 June-5 July 2014, and includes updates on chikungunya, dengue, Ebola virus, MERS, polio and West Nile fever.
This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR), covers the period 22-28 June 2014, and includes updates on chikungunya, dengue, Ebola virus, measles, MERS, polio, rubella and West Nile fever.
This issue of the Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 15-21 June 2014, and includes updates on chikungunya, dengue, Ebola haemorrhagic fever, MERS, polio and West Nile fever.
The recent floods in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia caused substantial damage. Following the floods, there is a risk of increased transmission of vector-borne infections to the populations.
This issue of the ECDC Communicavle Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 8-14 June 2014, and includes updates on chikungunya, Ebola virus, MERS, polio and West Nile fever (197)
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.
This is an update to the joint rapid risk assessment published on 6 July 2012 by ECDC and EMCDDA on anthrax cases among injecting drug users in Germany. This is in response to further cases in France and Denmark. It contains information updated up to the 13 July 2012.
On 7 and 10 July, the Hellenic Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (KEELPNO) reported the first two human cases of West Nile virus (WNV) infection in Greece this year. When looking at the epidemiology of WNV infection in Greece since 2010, one can observe a progressive geographical expansion of WNV transmission throughout the country. For this reason, these newly confirmed cases in Athens do not come unexpected.