The focal distribution of tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV; Flaviviridae, Flavivirus) appears to depend mainly on cofeeding transmission between infected Ixodes ricinus L. nymphs and uninfected larvae.
A seroprevalence study was carried out in the region of Marseille (south-eastern France) to address the public health importance of sandfly fever Sicilian virus (SFSV) and SFSV-like viruses, as recently recognized vectors of those viruses are present in this area.
This study reports a combined analysis of mitochondrial and ribosomal DNA target regions of phlebotomine sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) from the Mediterranean region.
While Europe is experiencing low influenza activity a new study presenting global estimates of the burden of respiratory infections due to seasonal influenza in young children has been published online by the Lancet on the 11 November 2011
Elimination of rubella and prevention of congenital rubella infection in Europe has been a high priority for the WHO European Regional Office over the past decade. In 2010 the WHO regional committee for Europe renewed its commitment to the elimination of rubella and prevention of CRS with a new target of 2015. For Central Europe to reach the target of rubella elimination and prevention of CRS by 2015, very high vaccine coverage levels need to be maintained and catch-up campaigns continued to address susceptible groups, in particular women of child-bearing age.
A pre-EUPHA conference workshop aimed at presenting results of ECDC works on socio-economic determinants and its impacts on infectious diseases control and prevention.
This EUPHEM Module gave opportunity to EUPHEM fellows to get familiar with roles and responsibilities of a European organization involved in infectious disease control and to identify activities related to epidemiological surveillance, including protocols, data analysis and reports developed to set up surveillance systems, evaluation schemes and results of surveillance data analyses.
The fifth European Scientific Conference on Applied Infectious Disease Epidemiology (ESCAIDE) was be held on 6-8 November 2011 in Stockholm, Sweden, at the newly opened conference centre in the centre of the city: Stockholm Waterfront Congress Centre.