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Communicable disease threats report, 15-21 August, week 33
This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 15-21 August 2021 and includes updates on COVID-19, West Nile virus, Vibrio growth, Ebola virus, and Zika.
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Communicable disease threats report, 11-17 July 2021, week 28
This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period11-17 July 2021 and includes updates on the UEFA European Football Championship 2020 (2021), COVID-19, West Nile virus, plague and Zika.
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Zika virus disease - Annual Epidemiological Report for 2019
For 2019, in the EU/EEA countries, 71 cases of Zika virus (ZIKV) disease were reported. Five cases of ZIKV disease were reported to have been locally-acquired, three autochthonous vector-borne cases, one case of sexual transmission and one case of non-mosquito borne transmission. 92% of cases of ZIKV disease with known importation status were from returning travellers.
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Zika virus disease - Annual Epidemiological Report for 2018
In 2018, in the EU/EEA countries: 51 cases of Zika virus (ZIKV) infection were reported; no autochthonous vector-borne cases of ZIKV infection were reported; 56.8% percent of ZIKV infection in EU/EEA travellers originated from the Caribbean, 22.3% from South-East Asia, and 11.3% from the Americas; there were no reports of cases involving sexual or vertical transmission of ZIKV.
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Communicable disease threats report, 27 October-2 November 2019, week 44
This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 27 October-2 November 2019 and includes updates on Ebola virus disease, mass gathering monitoring in Japan, MERS-CoV, West Nile virus and Zika fever.
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Communicable disease threats report, 20-26 October 2019, week 43
This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 20-26 October 2019 and includes updates on chikungunya, cholera, dengue, Ebola virus disease, influenza, mass gathering monitoring in Japan, West Nile virus and Zika fever.
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Rapid risk assessment: Zika virus disease in Var department, France
On 1 October 2019, a case of locally acquired Zika virus (ZIKV) disease in France (Hyères city, Var department) was laboratory confirmed. To date, and based on ECDC’s epidemiological assessment, the probability of ongoing vector-borne local transmission in Hyères (and surrounding areas) is considered very low because current evidence does not indicate the existence of a more extensive cluster of ZIKV cases.
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Communicable disease threats report, 6-12 October 2019, week 41
This issue covers the period 6-12 October 2019 and includes updates on Ebola virus disease, extensively drug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae, West Nile virus, mass gathering monitoring (Japan, Rugby World Cup 2019), Poliomyelitis, Measles, Zika virus disease, seasonal influenza, XDR-Typhoid fever.
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Zika virus disease - Annual Epidemiological Report for 2017
In 2017, the outbreak of Zika virus (ZIKV) disease in the Caribbean and the Americas (2015–2016) subsided, leading to a significant decrease in the number of travel-associated infections in EU/EEA countries.
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Communicable disease threats report, 30 June-6 July 2019, week 27
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 from 30 June-6 July 2019 and includes updates on polio, Ebola virus disease, Vibrio, West Nile virus infection and acute neurological syndrome in Peru.