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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 18-24 December 2022 and includes updates on chikungunya, cholera, COVID-19, dengue, C. diphtheriae, Ebola, influenza A(H5N1), Influenza A(H9N2), mass gathering monitoring, Mpox, swine influenza.

This issue of the CDTR covers the period 11 – 17 December 2022 and includes updates on COVID-19, diphtheria, measles, streptococcal infection, invasive meningococcal disease, poliomyelitis, influenza, mass gathering monitoring, and Ebola virus disease.

This report presents the results from a survey among 30 EU/EEA countries.

This Reporting Protocol provides information for reporting countries’ data managers.

This Reporting Protocol provides guidelines for data managers in reporting countries on how to prepare data for submission to TESSy, deadlines for reporting, subject-specific information (e.g. new changes to metadata), and links to further information.

This Reporting Protocol provides guidelines for data managers in reporting countries on how to prepare data for submission to TESSy, deadlines for reporting, subject-specific information (e.g. new changes to metadata), and links to further information.

In order to explore how insights from the implementation of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) during the COVID-19 pandemic may guide further preparedness for COVID-19 – as well as pandemic preparedness and response work in the EU more generally, ECDC organised an expert consultation in June 2022 on the implementation and evaluation of NPIs. This report summarises […]

Since the end of October 2022 and as of week 47, several EU/EEA countries have indicated an increase in paediatric hospitalisations due to RSV infections causing bronchiolitis, amidst concurrent circulation of other respiratory pathogens, such as the influenza and SARS-CoV-2 viruses.

In recent weeks, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) circulation in the EU/EEA has intensified, with increasing transmission rates in all population groups and an earlier-than-usual start of the season. Several EU/EEA countries are experiencing high RSV circulation and the number of severe acute respiratory infections (SARI) due to RSV is increasing. At this time of the […]

This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 4 – 10 December 2022 and includes updates on COVID-19, Ebola virus, respiratory syncytial virus, streptococcal infection, diphtheria, seasonal influenza, mpox (monkeypox), hepatitis, MERS-CoV, meningitis, and mass gathering monitoring at the FIFA World Cup 2022 Qatar.