Increased flu and COVID-19 vaccination recommended for risk groups in EU/EEA ahead of winter
Seasonal influenza and COVID-19 vaccination uptake for risk groups such as the elderly were sub-optimal in several EU/EEA Member States during the 2023-2024 season.
This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 2-8 November 2024 and includes updates on avian influenza, Middle East respiratory virus syndrome, West Nile virus, dengue, mpox, Marburg virus disease, and an overview or respiratory virus epidemiology in the EU/EEA.
This report describes the results of the 2023 external quality assessment (EQA) exercise for antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) by clinical laboratories that participate in the European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Network (EARS-Net).
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