This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 20-26 July 2014, and includes updates on chikungunya, Ebola virus, measles, MERS, polio and West Nile fever.
The 2013–14 influenza season was mild and dominated by influenza A viruses, with a co-circulation of A(H1N1)pdm09 and A(H3N2) viruses in most countries. Only two countries reported higher syndromic notification rates compared with the previous season.
This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report covers the period 13-19 July 2014, and includes updates on chikungunya, dengue, Ebola virus, MERS, polio and West Nile fever.
A recent article by Watanabe et al. in the Cell Host & Microbe journal describes an attempt to assess the risk of emergence of pandemic influenza viruses closely related to the 1918 influenza virus.
This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 6-12 July 2014, and includes updates on chikungunya, MERS, polio and West Nile fever.
This ECDC surveillance report on sexually transmitted infections in Europe covers the years 2003 to 2012 and describes the epidemiological features and basic trends of the five STIs under EU surveillance: chlamydia, gonorrhoea, syphilis, congenital syphilis and lymphogranuloma venereum.
This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 29 June-5 July 2014, and includes updates on chikungunya, dengue, Ebola virus, MERS, polio and West Nile fever.
Since April 2012 and as of 2 July 2014, overall 842 cases of MERS-CoV infection have been reported by local health authorities worldwide, including 322 deaths.