This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 6-11 March 2022, and includes updates on COVID-19, rat hepatitis E, seasonal influenza, measles, Japanese encephalitis, polio, MERS-CoV, dengue, chikungunya and the influx of people displaced from Ukraine to the EU following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
This report presents the results of the 10th round of the external quality assessment (EQA-10) scheme for typing of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC).
For 2019, 30 EU/EEA Member States reported 29 996 cases of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection. Excluding the five countries that only reported acute cases, the number of cases, 29 518, corresponds to a crude rate of 7.4 cases per 100 000 population.
In 2019, 37 733 cases of hepatitis C were reported in 29 EU/EEA Member States. Excluding countries that only reported acute cases leaves 37 660 cases, which corresponds to a crude rate of 8.9 cases per 100 000 population.