Rift Valley fever - Annual Epidemiological Report for 2016

Surveillance report

12 Dec 2018

Publication series: Annual Epidemiological Report

Time period covered: This report is based on data for 2016 retrieved from The European Surveillance System (TESSy) on 4 April 2018.

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For 2016, EU/EEA countries reported three travel-related cases of Rift Valley fever. All cases reported by EU/EEA countries between 2012 and 2016 were travel-related, with probable infection in Comoros, Egypt, Ghana, Mali or Uganda.

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