ECDC and DG SANTE jointly carried out this country visit to Sweden from 16 to 20 September 2024 to assist in the review of their national strategy and plan for tackling antimicrobial resistance (AMR), based on a One Health approach.
Carbapenem resistance in Enterobacterales, such as Klebsiella pneumoniae and Escherichia coli, poses a significant threat to patients and healthcare systems in European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) countries.
This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 24-31 January 2025, and includes updates on influenza A(H5N1), chikungunya, dengue, mpox, Marburg virus disease, suspected viral haemorrhagic fever in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Ebola.
Between September and December 2024, four countries in the EU/EEA (Finland, Germany, Poland, and Spain) and the United Kingdom (UK) reported detections of a genetic cluster of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) in sewage samples.
The report should assist in developing guidance documents to facilitate coordinated One Health investigations and the management of outbreaks in humans and animals caused by zoonotic avian influenza viruses.
A risk assessment framework was developed to evaluate the zoonotic potential of avian influenza (AI), focusing on virus mutations linked to phenotypic traits related to mammalian adaptation identified in the literature.
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) jointly carried out this country visit to North Macedonia from 29 January to 2 February 2024, which was coordinated by a consortium composed of
Epiconcept and Integrated Quality Laboratory Services.
This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 18-24 January and includes updates on Marburg virus disease, Mpox and an overview of respiratory virus epidemiology in the EU/EEA.
Anthrax continues to be a rare disease in humans in Europe, with only a few cases reported every year. For 2022, 13 confirmed cases were reported by Croatia (eight cases), Romania (three cases) and Spain (two cases) and an additional nine probable cases were reported by Croatia.
This reporting protocol describes data collection for human cases of zoonotic influenza viruses, with the aim to support assessment of key indicators and trends over time and inform situational risk assessments.
