This document provides an overview of public health guidance on testing for TB infection, TB preventive treatment and screening for TB disease, in the context of the mass influx of people arriving in European countries from Ukraine.
This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 27 March-2 April 2022, and includes updates on COVID-19, the influx of people displaced from Ukraine to the EU following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, seasonal influenza, Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever, and poliomyelitis.
This report provides an overview of the latest tuberculosis (TB) epidemiological situation and is published jointly by the WHO Regional Office for Europe and ECDC.
According to the latest ECDC/WHO report on tuberculosis (TB) surveillance and monitoring in Europe, a sharp drop (24%) in reported tuberculosis cases between 2019 and 2020 was probably exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, which hindered detection and reporting.