For 2020, 2 377 malaria cases were reported in the EU/EEA, 2 369 (> 99%) of which were confirmed. Among 2 088 cases with known importation status, 99.8% were travel-related. Five confirmed cases were reported as acquired in the EU (three by France and two by Greece).
This issue of the CDTR covers the period 18-24 December 2022 and includes updates on chikungunya, cholera, COVID-19, dengue, C. diphtheriae, Ebola, influenza A(H5N1), Influenza A(H9N2), mass gathering monitoring, Mpox, swine influenza.
Hepatitis A cases in 2021 were at their lowest levels since EU-level hepatitis A surveillance began in 2007, while five other food and waterborne diseases are rising towards pre-pandemic levels. The information is revealed in the Annual Epidemiological Report 2021, of which six chapters are published today by ECDC.
In 2021, 30 EU/EEA countries reported 3 864 cases of hepatitis A (Table 1). The EU/EEA notification rate was 0.9 cases per 100 000 population. In 2021, both the lowest number of reported cases and the lowest notification rate were reported since the beginning of EU-level hepatitis A surveillance in 2007. The total number of hepatitis A cases reported in EU/EEA countries in 2021 represented a decrease of 65.7% and 12.3% compared to 2019 and 2020, respectively.
This issue of the CDTR covers the period 27 November – 3 December 2022 and includes updates on COVID-19, Ebola, diphtheria, respiratory syncytial virus, seasonal influenza, monkeypox, mass gathering monitoring at the FIFA World Cup 2022 Qatar, Chikungunya, dengue, Shigella sonnei, poliomyelitis, meningitis, cholera.
In 2023 and until the beginning of December, over 5 million cases and over 5 000 dengue-related deaths have been reported from 86 countries/territories globally.