In the autumn of 2011 a United States Government body, the NSABB established under the National Institutes of Health considered two scientific papers describing experimental work manipulating avian influenza viruses.
ECDC and the European Respiratory Society (ERS) have developed 21 patient-centred standards that aim to guide clinicians and public health workers in their daily work to ensure optimal diagnosis, treatment and prevention of tuberculosis (TB) in Europe. Nearly 74 000 reported TB cases in the EU/EEA in 2010 clearly show that tuberculosis remains a public health challenge across the region.
A pair of linked papers from Finland concerning the above topic, one epidemiological and the second combining both clinical and epidemiological were published on March 28th in the open access journal, PLoS One.(1,2).
This study found a marked reduction in vaccine serotype carriage after PCV7 implementation. The overall pneumococcal, H. influenzae and S. aureus carriage decreased slightly, but not significantly.
This study, strong of an almost complete follow-up of all children born in Denmark from 2003 to 2008, provides evidence that the DTaP-IPV-HiB vaccine is not associated to an overall increased risk of febrile seizures and epilepsy.
The Management Board approves and monitors implementation of ECDC’s work programme and budget, it adopts its annual report and accounts - all in all, it acts as the governing body of the Centre. It meets at least twice a year.
The general content of the course provided the participants with basic theoretical concepts, using real life TS examples. The course included practical TSA exercises with STATA. Fellows learned how to describe and analyse a TS dataset. Fellows were also encouraged to discover if their current projects have a time dimension and if a TSA would be of added value for their project.
Location:Madrid, Spain
Organized by:ECDC in cooperation with Instituto de Salud Carlos III-Spain