For 2019, EU/EEA countries reported five human Lyssavirus infections. Four human cases of travel-related rabies were reported by Italy, Latvia, Spain and Norway with exposure in Tanzania, India, Morocco and the Philippines, respectively. One locally-acquired fatal case of European bat lyssavirus (EBLV-1) infection was reported by France.
This report provides an analysis of the external quality assessment (EQA) for the antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) performance of laboratories participating in the European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Network (EARS-Net) in 2019. A total of 952 laboratories (1–95 per country) from 30 EU/EEA countries participated in the EQA exercise.
Rabies is a deadly disease and endemic in over 100 countries. It causes around 59,000 human deaths annually, the vast majority in Asia and Africa. There are safe and effective human vaccines for pre- and post-exposure prophylaxis. With a prompt and proper post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP), exposed people have a survival rate close to 100%.
This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 30 August - 5 Sep 2020 and includes updates on COVID-19, Ebola virus disease, MERS, Dengue, CCHF, West Nile Virus.
This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 29 September-5 October 2019 and includes updates on COVID-19 associated with SARS-CoV-2, Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic fever – Europe – 2020, West Nile virus - Monitoring season 2020, Monitoring of the environmental suitability of Vibrio growth in the Baltic Sea - Summer 2020, Ebola virus disease - eleventh outbreak - Democratic Republic of the Congo - 2020 and dengue in the French Antilles - 2020.
This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 5-11 July 2020 and includes updates on COVID-19, Ebola virus disease, vibrio, West Nile Virus and measles.
This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 28 June - 4 July 2020 and includes updates on COVID-19, Ebola virus disease, polio, vibrio, West Nile Virus and lyssavirus.