In 2014, 2 760 confirmed cases of invasive meningococcal disease were reported to TESSy. The notification rate was 0.5 cases per 100 000 population, which is lower than in previous years.
This ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report covers 18-24 December 2016 and includes updates on Salmonella Stourbridge, type E botulism, hepatitis A, tuberculosis, cholera, influenza, measles, rubella, Legionnaires' disease and the Zika virus.
This document assesses the risk to human health posed by a multi-country incident of botulism neurotoxin type E, possibly associated with consumption of a commercially-available dried and salted fish product.
This issue of the Communicable Disease Threat Report (CDTR) covers the period 31 July - 6 August 2016 and includes updates on Zika virus, yellow fever in Angola, chikungunya, dengue, West Nile virus and polio.
This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 24-30 July 2016 and includes updates on rubella, measles, poliomyelitis, Zika virus, yellow fever, West Nile fever and botulism among people who inject drugs.
Illnesses caused by infectious diseases are common in children in schools or other childcare settings. Currently there is no common EU approach to the control of communicable diseases in schools or other childcare settings, and existing information is uncertain.
In July 2014, a panel of two viable isolates of N. meningitidis of the major disease-causing serogroups with three simulated cerebrospinal fluid (non-culture) samples for molecular studies, was sent by UK NEQAS to 30 reference laboratories in the IBD-labnet surveillance network for quality assessment testing. This report summarises the diagnostic results submitted by the participating laboratories.
This rapid risk assessment considers the risk to the EU of an outbreak of invasive meningococcal disease in the UK and Sweden associated with the 23rd World Scout Jamboree in Japan.
This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 16-22 August 2015 , and includes updates on chikungunya, West Nile virus, meningococcal disease, polio, Ebola virus and MERS.