Location: Stockholm, SwedenEurovaccine 2009 is the first European conference on vaccination and immunisation organised and fully funded by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).

Location: European Antibiotic Awareness Day will take place on 18 November 2009. The aim of the Day is to provide an annual opportunity for awareness raising about the threat to public health of antibiotic resistance and how to use antibiotics responsibly.

Location: Brussels, Belgium In order to minimise the negative impact of the pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza, close coordination at global level of all affected sectors is necessary.

Location: Stockholm, Sweden

The conference aims at: (a) strengthening and expanding the human network of all involved in applied infectious disease epidemiology (b) sharing scientific knowledge and experience in this field in Europe and internationally, and (c) providing a dedicated platform for EPIET/FETP (field epidemiology training programme) fellows to present their work.

Location: Uppsala, Sweden

This meeting will bring together senior representatives from all the national public health institutes and authorities across Europe that work with ECDC.  It will be a unique opportunity for these organisations to meet each other and explore how to work together effectively.

Location: MaltaThe second annual meeting of European Food- and Waterborne Diseases and Zoonoses Network will take place on 24-25 September in Malta.

Location: Verona, ItalyThe next European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health will be hosted in Verona, Italy, from 6 to 10 September 2009, under the auspices of the Federation of European Societies for Tropical Medicine and International Health (FESTMIH).

Location: Budapest, HungaryTwo communications of interest have been presented during this plenary session: Medical tourism: definition, scope, impact and players, JD Woodman; Pre-travel preparation of the medical tourist, ME Jones.

Location: Budapest, HungaryA lecture about Severe malaria caused by P. knowlesi and P. vivax infections, B. Genton.

Location: Budapest, HungaryA lecture entitled “Yellow fever sans frontières », JR Alves.

Location: Budapest, HungaryTwo lectures entitled Malaria decline in Africa – fact or fiction? By V.  D’Acremont, and Implications for the prevention of traveller’s malaria by A McCarthy.

Location: Budapest, HungaryA lecture about Defining Yellow Fever Risk in Endemic Areas, D.R. Hill.

Location: Budapest, HungaryAn original study about the Clinical development of a Japanese encephalitis vaccine.

Location: Budapest, HungaryTick-borne encephalitis, or TBE, is a human viral infectious disease that most often manifest as meningitis, encephalitis, or meningoencephalitis but also, sometimed as mild febrile illnesses. TBE is caused by tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV). A vaccine is available and may be advised to travellers to endemic areas in Northern Europe and Northern Asia.

Location: Budapest, HungaryThe authors showed that the quality of routine microscopy for malaria was poor at all levels. Both specificity and sensitivity were low.

Location: Budapest, HungaryThe 11th Conference of the International Society of Travel Medicine (CISTM11) will held in Budapest, Hungary at the ELTE University Conference Centre from May 24–28, 2009