Communicable disease threats to public health in the European Union - Annual Epidemiological Report for 2016

Surveillance report
Publication series: Annual Epidemiological Report
Time period covered: This report is based on data for 2016 retrieved from ECDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Information System (EPIS), Early Warning Response System (EWRS) and Threat Tracking Tool (TTT) on 12 January 2017
Cite:

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. Communicable disease threats to public health in the European Union. In: ECDC. Annual epidemiological report for 2016. Stockholm: ECDC; 2018. 

This report covers the events, threats and actions taken in 2016 related to the findings of routine activities carried out by the ECDC epidemic intelligence team. The objective of epidemic intelligence at ECDC is to rapidly detect and assess public health events of any origin to ensure EU health security as defined in ECDC’s mandate.