For 2020, 29 countries in the European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) reported a total of 33 148 tuberculosis (TB) cases (7.3 per 100 000 population).
This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 7-13 August 2022 and includes updates on West Nile virus infection, COVID-19, monkeypox, measles, Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever, Langya henipavirus, dengue, mass gatherings at the Birmingham 2022 commonwealth games, Vibrio growth, swine influenza and polio.
For 2020, 29 EU/EEA Member States reported 14 428 cases of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection. Excluding the five countries that only reported acute cases, the number of cases (14 137) corresponds to a crude rate of 4.2 cases per 100 000 population.