Cases of salmonellosis and campylobacteriosis have remained stable over the past five years, although listeriosis is on the rise. In 2017, there was an average of 100 food- and waterborne outbreaks per week.
The OECD report ‘Health at a Glance: Europe 2018’ summarises the EULabCap indicator results in the chapter on public health laboratory capacity to control infectious disease threats.
This is the first report for the 2018–19 influenza season. As of week 44/2018, only 540 influenza detections across the WHO European Region have been reported.
The scope of this project was to provide an overview of different effective testing strategies for hepatitis B and C and their outcomes in the EU/EEA, covering all relevant population groups and settings.
Cholera is a rare travel-associated disease in the EU/EEA. In 2016, six EU/EEA countries reported 23 laboratory-confirmed cases of cholera, which was in the range of previous years. All cases with known travel history were infected outside of Europe.
In a Council Recommendation adopted by EU health ministers today, ECDC has been called on to implement a number of key actions in the fight against vaccine-preventable diseases.
This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period from 2-8 December 2018 and includes updates on West Nile virus, Ebola virus disease, influenza, poliomyelitis and Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV).