Three imported cases of rabies were reported in 2014. Every year, a small number of human cases is reported in Europe, either travel related or autochthonous.
This ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report covers 18-24 December 2016 and includes updates on Salmonella Stourbridge, type E botulism, hepatitis A, tuberculosis, cholera, influenza, measles, rubella, Legionnaires' disease and the Zika virus.
This document assesses the risk to human health posed by a multi-country incident of botulism neurotoxin type E, possibly associated with consumption of a commercially-available dried and salted fish product.
This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 24-30 July 2016 and includes updates on rubella, measles, poliomyelitis, Zika virus, yellow fever, West Nile fever and botulism among people who inject drugs.
Illnesses caused by infectious diseases are common in children in schools or other childcare settings. Currently there is no common EU approach to the control of communicable diseases in schools or other childcare settings, and existing information is uncertain.
These slogans are part a toolkit which aims to support infection prevention in schools, with a focus on gastrointestinal diseases, by assisting EU/EEA countries in their communication initiatives for disease prevention in school settings.
This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 15-21 February 2015, and includes updates on influenza, Botulism, polio, MERS and Ebola virus.
This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 8-14 February, and includes updates on Botulism, influenza, avian influenza, Ebola virus, MERS and polio.
This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 1-7 February 2015, and includes updates on influenza, botulism, Ebola virus, MERS, dengue, chikungunya and polio.