This issue of the Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 15-21 January 2023 and includes updates on COVID-19, diphtheriae, influenza, Mpox and Cholera.
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Since the risk assessment published by ECDC in August 2021 on the risk of vCJD disease transmission via blood and PDMP manufactured from donations obtained in the UK, no new cases of vCJD associated with dietary exposure or transfusion of blood or blood components have been reported in EU/EEA or in the rest of the world.
On 16 and 17 January 2023, ECDC Director Andrea Ammon was in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to meet with Africa CDC Director Dr Ahmed Ogwell Ouma and the African Union Commissioner for Health, Humanitarian Affairs and Social Development Ambassador Minata Cessouma Samate.