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Know your status: get tested during European Testing Week
On the way towards the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) for health, Europe has one important battle to take on: reducing the proportion of those living with undiagnosed HIV and viral hepatitis. Current status in the EU/EEA: one in seven people living with HIV are unaware of their infection, up to four out of 5 people living with hepatitis B and three out of four people with hepatitis C infection have not yet been diagnosed.
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Surveillance systems overview for 2018
This spreadsheet contains all surveillance system overview tables from ECDC's annual epidemiological report for 2018.
- Anthrax
- Botulism
- Campylobacteriosis
- Chikungunya virus disease
- Chlamydia infection
- Cholera
- Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever
- Cryptosporidiosis
- Dengue
- Diphtheria
- Ebola haemorrhagic fever
- Echinococcosis
- EU/EEA
- Giardiasis
- Hantavirus infection
- Healthcare-associated infections
- Hepatitis A
- Hepatitis B
- Hepatitis C
- HIV infection
- Influenza
- Invasive Haemophilus influenzae disease
- Lassa fever
- Leptospirosis
- Listeriosis
- Malaria
- Marburg haemorrhagic fever
- Meningococcal disease
- Mumps
- Pertussis
- Plague
- Pneumococcal disease
- Poliomyelitis
- Q fever
- Rabies
- Rift Valley fever
- Salmonellosis
- Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)
- Shigellosis
- Smallpox
- Surveillance
- Verotoxigenic Escherichia coli infection
- West Nile virus infection
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Communicable disease threats report, 8-14 September 2019, week 37
The ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) is a weekly bulletin for epidemiologists and health professionals on active public health threats. This issue covers the period 8-14 September 2019 and includes updates on Ebola virus disease, Group A streptococcus infection, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Vibrio growth in the Baltic Sea, measles and West Nile virus.
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Targeted testing for viral hepatitis: Europe’s persistent public health challenge
Targeted testing is an essential element of any strategy to eliminate viral hepatitis across the countries in the European Union and European Economic Area. Some preliminary monitoring results on the response to hepatitis B and C presented around World Hepatitis Day show that diagnosing chronic infections is still a challenge in the EU/EEA.
Peer-Reviewed Publication
Hepatitis b and c prevalence and incidence in key population groups with multiple risk factors in the EU/ EEA: A systematic review
Mason, L.M.K., Duffell, E., Veldhuijzen, I.K., Petriti, U., Bunge, E.M., Tavoschi, L.
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World Hepatitis Day 2019
World Hepatitis Day is marked on 28 July each year to increase the awareness and understanding of viral hepatitis.
Peer-Reviewed Publication
Can economic indicators predict infectious disease spread? A cross-country panel analysis of 13 European countries
Hunter, P.R., Colón-González, F.J., Brainard, J., Majuru, B., Pedrazzoli, D., Abubakar, I., Dinsa, G., Suhrcke, M., Stuckler, D., Lim, T.-A., Semenza, J.C.
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Rapid risk assessment: Public health risks related to communicable diseases during the hajj 2019, Saudi Arabia, 9–14 August 2019
In 2019, the hajj will take place between 9 and 14 August. The risk for EU/EEA citizens to become infected with communicable diseases during the 2019 hajj is considered low, thanks to the vaccination requirements for travelling to Makkah (Mecca) and the Saudi Arabian preparedness plans that address the management of health hazards during and after hajj.
- Diphtheria
- Food- and waterborne diseases
- Hepatitis A
- Hepatitis B
- Influenza
- Mass gathering
- Measles
- Meningococcal disease
- Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus
- Mumps
- Poliomyelitis
- Public health threat
- Rabies
- Rubella
- Saudi Arabia
- Tetanus
- Travellers' health
- Vaccine preventable diseases
- Vector-borne disease
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Hepatitis B - Annual Epidemiological Report for 2017
In 2017, 30 EU/EEA Member States reported 26 907 cases of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection. Excluding the five countries that only reported acute cases, the number of cases, 26 262, corresponds to a crude rate of 6.7 cases per 100 000 population.
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Chronic hepatitis B infections on the rise since 2008
In 2017, the majority (58%) of the almost 27 000 newly reported hepatitis B cases in the European Union and European Economic Area were classified as chronic infections. This follows a consistent upward trend in reported chronic hepatitis B cases since 2008.