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Unlocking the potential of data in light of early lessons from COVID-19: ECDC session at European Health Forum Gastein 2020
Within the overall theme of European Health Forum Gastein (EHFG) 2020, “Dancing with elephants: New partnerships for health, democracy, business”, ECDC is hosting a workshop that will explore innovative digital solutions for comparable data, strong health systems and good decision-making.
Publication
Communicable disease threats to public health in the European Union - Annual Epidemiological Report for 2019
This report covers the events and threats detected by the ECDC epidemic intelligence (EI) team in 2019 and the actions taken in relation to these findings.
Peer-Reviewed Publication
Salmonellosis outbreak with novel Salmonella enterica subspecies enterica serotype (11:z41:e,n,z15) attributable to sesame products in five European countries, 2016 to 2017
Meinen, A., Simon, S., Banerji, S., Szabo, I., Malorny, B., Borowiak, M., Hadziabdic, S., Becker, N., Luber, P., Lohr, D., Harms, C., Plenge-Bönig, A., Mellou, K., Mandilara, G., Mossong, J., Ragimbeau, C., Weicherding, P., Hau, P., Dědičová, D., Šafaříková, L., Nair, S., Dallman, T.J., Larkin, L., McCormick, J., De Pinna, E., Severi, E., Kotila, S., Niskanen, T., Rizzi, V., Deserio, D., Flieger, A., Stark, K.
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Communicable disease threats to public health in the European Union - Annual Epidemiological Report for 2018
This report covers the events and threats detected by the ECDC epidemic intelligence (EI) team in 2018 and the actions taken related to these findings.
Peer-Reviewed Publication
An updated meta-analysis of the distribution and prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi s.l. in ticks in Europe
Estrada-Peña, A., Cutler, S., Potkonjak, A., Vassier-Tussaut, M., Bortel, W., Zeller, H., Fernández-Ruiz, N., Mihalca, A.D.
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Early Warning and Response System of the European Union (EWRS)
The Early Warning and Response System of the European Union is a tool with restricted access for monitoring public health threats in the EU. Access and posting are confidential and only accessed by ECDC, the Member States and the Directorate General Health and Food Safety (SANTE).
Peer-Reviewed Publication
Event-based surveillance of food- and waterborne diseases in Europe: ‘urgent inquiries’ (outbreak alerts) during 2008 to 2013
Gossner, C.M., de Jong, B., Hoebe, C.J., Coulombier, D., Kornschober, C., Schmid, D., Quoilin, S., Koliou, M., Kralova, R., Marejkova, M., Ethelberg, S., Müller, L., Torpdahl, M., Nielsen, E.M., Epstein, J., Dontsenko, I., Lienemann, T., Rimhanen-Finne, R., Kuusi, M., Siitonen, A., Silva, N.J.D., King, L., Le, Hello, S., Leclercq, A., Bernard, H., Frank, C., Werber, D., Rabsch, W., Mellou, K., Krisztalovics, K., Pászti, J., Sigmundsdottir, G., Hardardottir, H., Garvey, P., McKeown, P., Cormican, M., McNamara, E., Scavia, G., Luzzi, I., Korotinska, R., Zagrebneviene, G., Gatt, A., Nygård, K., Vold, L., Bral, L.C.T., Wester, A.L., Dufour, M., Zota, L., Mikas, J., Grilc, E., Martínez, C.V., León, S.H., Keddy, K.H., Keddy, K.H., Ivarsson, S., Löfdahl, M., Jernberg, C., Hedenström, I., Friesema, I., Verhoef, L., Van Pelt, W., Heck, M., Lane, C., Peters, T., Awofisayo, A., Brownlie, S., Gerner-Smidt, P.
Peer-Reviewed Publication
Three simultaneous, Food-borne, Multi-country outbreaks of hepatitis A virus infection reported in EPIS-FWD in 2013: What does it mean for the European Union?
Gossner, C.M., Severi, E.
Peer-Reviewed Publication
Infectious diseases prioritisation for event-based surveillance at the European Union level for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games
Economopoulou, A., Kinross, P., Domanovic, D., Coulombier, D.
News
Report on ECDC/JRC collaboration on development of online tool for epidemic intelligenceArchived
The European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC), Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen (IPSC), issued a report about the ECDC/JRC collaboration on the improvement of MedISys, a web-based tool for epidemic intelligence activities.