To mark the 15th European Antibiotic Awareness Day, ECDC hosted a launch event with the theme “Preventing Antimicrobial Resistance Together”, an acknowledgement and reminder that keeping antibiotics working is everyone’s responsibility.
From 21–22 November, ECDC hosted the annual meeting of the National ECDC Correspondents in the European Neighbourhood Policy partner countries and the MediPIET National Focal Points in Stockholm, Sweden.
ECDC monitors and reports on influenza activity in Europe on a weekly basis throughout the flu season, in collaboration with WHO Regional Office for Europe.
This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 13-19 November 2022 and includes updates on monitoring the FIFA World Cup in Qatar, avian influenza, cholera, COVID-19, diphtheria, Ebola virus disease, poliomyelitis, Respiratory Syncytial Virus, seasonal influenza, swine influenza, and West Nile virus.
This report aims to provide updated estimates of the burden of infections with selected bacterium–antibiotic resistance combinations in the EU/EEA in 2016-2020 and assess how this burden has changed from previous estimates.
For 2021, 29 countries (27 European Union (EU) Member States and two European Economic Area (EEA) countries – Iceland and Norway) reported data on antimicrobial consumption.