Communicable disease threats report, 2-8 December 2012, week 49
The ECDC communicable disease threats report is a weekly bulletin intended for epidemiologists and health professionals in the area of communicable disease prevention and control. Summarising information gathered by ECDC through its epidemic intelligence activities regarding communicable disease threats of concern to the European Union, it also provides updates on the global situation and changes in the epidemiology of communicable diseases with potential to affect Europe, including diseases that are the focus of eradication efforts.
[Errata. An amendment was made on 10 December 2012 to the dengue in Madeira section of the report.]
Executive Summary
During week 48, from 25 November to 1 December, ECDC monitored several EU and Non EU threats posed by communicable diseases.
In particular, regarding the ongoing outbreak of Dengue fever in Madeira, 1 819 cases of dengue fever have been reported from Madeira as of 25 November 2012. Forty three cases of dengue have been reported among European travellers returning from the island since the start of the outbreak. The presence of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, the main vector for transmission of the virus, has been documented in Madeira since 2005. The CDTR also includes information on the novel coronavirus which has been temporarily named hCoV-EMC. On 30 November WHO confirmed that retrospectively two samples from a cluster of respiratory disease in Jordan in April 2012 have tested positive for the novel coronavirus. Both of these cases were fatal. In total nine cases have now been detected, out of which five were fatal. The ECDC communicable disease threats report is a weekly bulletin intended for epidemiologists and health professionals in the area of communicable disease prevention and control.
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