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ECDC: On Air - Episode 6 - The Disease Detectives
For World Field Epidemiology Day so we sat down to talk about what field epidemiology is with an expert.
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Communicable disease threats report 19 - 25 March, Week 12
This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 19-25 March 2023 and includes updates on Marburg virus disease, iatrogenic botulism, COVID-19, Influenza, Group A streptococcal infection, cholera, poliomyelitis, measles, and extensively drug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
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Nipah virus disease
Nipah virus (NiV) is an emerging zoonotic virus that can be transmitted to humans from animals (both wild and domestic). Fruit bats of the Pteropodidae family are the natural hosts of Nipah virus.
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Zika virus disease - Annual Epidemiological Report for 2020
For 2020, nine EU/EEA countries reported 22 cases of Zika virus (ZIKV) disease, the lowest number
ever reported since the start of EU/EEA surveillance in 2016. All cases with available information (20/22) were associated with travel outside the EU/EEA. All cases with available information (7/22) were infected through mosquitoes.
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Chikungunya virus disease cases April 2022 - March 2023
12-month chikungunya virus disease case notification rate per 100 000 population, April 2022 - March 2023.
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Dengue virus disease cases reported April 2022 - March 2023
12-month dengue virus disease case notification rate per 100 000 population, April 2022 - March 2023.
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Communicable disease threats report, Week 11, 12-18 March 2023
This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 12-18 March 2023 and includes updates on COVID-19, iatrogenic botulism, group A streptococcal infection, influenza, chikungunya and dengue, and influenza B among young people.
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Communicable Disease Threats Report Week 10, 5–11 March 2023
This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 5–11 March 2023 and includes updates on COVID-19, group A streptococcal infection, influenza, diphtheria, measles, iatrogenic botulism, poliomyelitis, and autochthonous Dengue.
Factsheet on Nipah virus disease
Nipah virus (NiV) is an emerging zoonotic virus that can be transmitted to humans from animals (both wild and domestic). Fruit bats of the Pteropodidae family are the natural hosts of Nipah virus. NiV infection can be asymptomatic or mild (subclinical), but it also causes acute respiratory illness and fatal encephalitis.
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Variant Creutzfeldt−Jakob disease - Annual Epidemiological Report for 2020
No cases of variant Creutzfeldt−Jakob disease (vCJD) were identified in the EU/EEA in 2020. vCJD disease remains extremely rare.