Europe | Novel coronavirus: rapid risk assessment by ECDC
Following the identification of a novel coronavirus in two patients, both having been in Saudi Arabia albeit three months apart, ECDC has prepared a rapid risk assessment to consider the risk to the...
View ArticleGlobal | Updated rapid risk assessment from ECDC – Severe respiratory disease...
Main conclusions and recommendations Background On 31 March 2013, Chinese authorities announced the identification of a novel reassortant A(H7N9) influenza virus isolated from three unlinked cases of...
View ArticleGlobal | Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus: updated guidance in...
The latest update of ECDC Rapid Risk Assessment on Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus(MERS-CoV) addresses: Epidemiological situation since publication of the previous Rapid Risk Assessment on...
View ArticleEurope | H7N9 – ECDC updates Rapid Risk Assessment
In recent weeks there has been a notable increase in the number of cases of avian influenza A(H7N9) being detected and reported in China. As of 27 January 2014, 251 cases of human infection with...
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Europe | Human infections with avian influenza A viruses in China, new ECDC...
In its new Rapid Risk Assessment, ECDC summarises the latest information about human infections with avian influenza A viruses in China. It focuses on A(H7N9) and A(H5N1) and includes other avian...
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Europe | Outbreak of Ebola haemorrhagic fever in Guinea: Risk for travellers...
The risk of tourists and visitors from the EU becoming infected with Ebola after a stay in Guinea is low, concludes an ECDC assessment on the outbreak of Ebola haemorrhagic fever currently ongoing in...
View ArticleGlobal | Marked increase of MERS-CoV cases in April 2014, ECDC Rapid Risk...
A marked and sudden increase in the number of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) cases have been reported in April 2014. The majority of cases continue to be in Saudi Arabia and...
View ArticleGlobal | Risk of MERS-CoV in Europe remains low, ECDC updates its risk...
Currently, the risk of human infections and sustainable human-to-human transmission in Europe remains low, concludes ECDC’s tenth rapid risk assessment on Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus....
View ArticleEurope | ECDC epidemiological update – MERS CoV
Since April 2012 and as of 2 July 2014, overall 842 cases of MERS-CoV infection have been reported by local health authorities worldwide, including 322 deaths. Between 4 June 2014 and 2 July 2014,...
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Europe | Outbreak of Ebola in West Africa: ECDC assesses the risk
Following an upsurge in the number of cases of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone in the last weeks, ECDC evaluates the risk of importation of the disease to the EU, the risk...
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Global | Updated Rapid Risk Assessment on the Ebola outbreak in West Africa...
ECDC has updated its Rapid Risk Assessment (RRA) on the Ebola virus disease outbreak in West Africa given the accelerating spread of the outbreak. The RRA summarises the known epidemiological...
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Global | Updated ECDC risk assessment for Ebola outbreak in West Africa
Since the start of the outbreak affecting four West African countries there have been more than 6 500 cases of Ebola virus disease (EVD), of which more than 3 000 people are reported to have died,...
View ArticleEurope | ECDC issues updated Rapid Risk Assessment on Ebola
There have now been 8 397 cases of Ebola virus disease (EVD), including more than 4 000 deaths, which have been reported by the World Health Organization (WHO) in affected countries (Guinea, Liberia,...
View ArticleNorway and the UK | Wound botulism among people who inject heroin — joint...
Today, two EU agencies, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the EU drugs agency (EMCDDA) have released a joint rapid risk assessment on wound botulism among people who...
View Article#Europe | #ECDC – Update of #MERS CoV rapid #risk assessment following large...
The evolving cluster of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in South Korea is the largest of its kind outside of the Middle East. Travel associated MERS-CoV infections, such as the...
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Europe | #ECDC updates its rapid risk assessment on #MERS CoV
Instances of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection continue to be reported in the Middle East and South Korea but the outbreak continues to pose a low risk to the EU with...
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