Surgical site infections are among the most common healthcare-associated infections, associated with longer postoperative hospital stay, additional surgical procedures or stay in an intensive care unit, and often higher mortality.
Since 2009, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control has coordinated the enhanced surveillance of sexually transmitted infections in Europe.
This document provides principles of surveillance, infection prevention and control (IPC) and management of COVID-19 infection in prisons in European Union (EU) and European Economic Area (EEA) countries and the United Kingdom (UK).
This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 21-27 August 2022 and includes updates on monkeypox, West Nile virus, COVID-19, Ebola, Vibrio growth, diphtheria, cholera, chikungunya virus disease and dengue.
Since the epidemic in the Americas peaked in the early spring of 2016, a continuous decline in the number of reported Zika virus disease cases has been observed in the majority of countries throughout the Americas and the Caribbean.
This update to the rapid risk assessment on the outbreak of Ebola virus disease in West Africa includes recent epidemiological data and the latest on treatment and vaccine development.
The overall aim of the workshop was to boost the advancement in this field, to reflect on the work done by countries, to share experiences with EU/EEA Member States, and to identify key priority areas that need to be addressed at regional level in Western Balkans.