European Immunization Week (EIW) is marked across Europe every year in the final week of April. It aims to raise awareness of the importance of immunisation for the general health and well-being of the European and wider population.
HelicsWin.Net (also referred to as HWN) is a software application developed for the manual entry of data of the ECDC HAI-Net surveillance of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs).
Mumps is a viral infection first described by Hippocrates that in its classical form causes acute parotitis and, less frequently, orchitis, meningitis and pneumonia.
In 2021, 1 567 cases of mumps were reported to ECDC by 27 European Union/European Economic Area(EU/EEA) Member States, with an overall notification rate of 0.4 cases per 100 000 population. This wassignificantly lower than the notification rates reported during the previous four years (range 1.7-4.2).