This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 4-10 July 2021 and includes updates on the Olympic games of Tokyo 2020, COVID-19, West Nile virus, measles, dengue, the UEFA European Football Championship 2020, and swine influenza.
This report provides an overview of the latest TB epidemiological situation and is published jointly by the WHO Regional Office for Europe and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).
The tuberculosis (TB) burden in the WHO European Region as a whole is decreasing, and is down 19% overall for 2015–2019, according to the latest WHO/European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) report Tuberculosis surveillance and monitoring in Europe 2021 (2019 data).