This rapid risk assessment looks at the detection of an international cluster involving 16 cases of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in asylum seekers.
Work Programme 2023 for the EU Initiative on Health Security, which works to set up a regional workforce responsible for the prevention and control of communicable diseases.
The ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) is a weekly bulletin for epidemiologists and health professionals on active public health threats. This issue covers the period from 21 to 27 July 2019 and includes updates on poliomyelitis, cholera, Ebola virus disease, monitoring environmental sustainability of Vibrio growth in the Baltic Sea, West Nile virus infection and falsified rabies vaccine in the Philippines.
The current generic protocol proposes a uniform approach for active invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) surveillance in children and enhanced surveillance in other age groups.
Shigellosis is a relatively uncommon disease in the EU/EEA, but remains of concern in some countries and for some population groups. In 2016, 29 EU/EEA countries reported 5 631 confirmed shigellosis cases.