C.D.C. (Europe)

Throughout 2023, ECDC and its partner countries worked to enhance the regional workforce under the EU Initiative on Health Security.

In April, ECDC completed a technical visit to Serbia focused on strengthening the country's disease surveillance capabilities.

Significant disruptions were observed in HIV-specific services, particularly for in-clinic and community-based HIV testing, according to the ECDC report "The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the HIV response in Europe and Central Asia."

Public health institutes across Europe increasingly recognise the value of examining public health trends and imagining what the future may look like according to different scenarios.

Since December 2023 there has been a large increase in the number of mpox cases reported in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

The inaugural meeting of the EUHTF in January 2024 marked a significant milestone in strengthening the EU's preparedness and response capacity to face public health emergencies.

In a joint report released today, ECDC and EFSA outline the contributing drivers for influenza A(H5N1) viruses to acquire the ability to spread efficiently among humans, thereby increasing their pandemic potential.

MediPIET/EPIET and EUPHEM fellows participated in a two-day optional module organised by ECDC, aimed at refining their proficiency in qualitative research methodologies.

Carlos Carvalho - ECDC's Principal Expert in Digital Surveillance to talk about the state of play of making the public health data flow up to speed in the third decade of the XXI-st century and usable for modern surveillance of infectious diseases.

In a bid to enhance collaboration and share best practices in HIV prevention and control, representatives from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Cyprus, and Egypt convened in Cairo for the first Exchange of Experts meeting in 2024.

A cross-border outbreak of Salmonella Mbandaka ST413 has been ongoing in the European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) and the United Kingdom (UK) for over two years since September 2021.

A cross-border outbreak of Salmonella Mbandaka ST413 has been ongoing in the European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) and the United Kingdom (UK) for over two years since September 2021.

A cross-border outbreak of Salmonella Mbandaka ST413 has been ongoing in the European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) and the United Kingdom (UK) for over two years since September 2021, as detailed in an updated joint Rapid Outbreak Assessment by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).

World Tuberculosis Day, marked each year on 24 March, is an occasion to raise awareness and advocate for efforts to eliminate TB.

Nearly 7,000 excess deaths from tuberculosis occurred in the WHO European Region in the three years of the pandemic from 2020 - 2022, compared to what experts had expected based on pre-2020 estimates.

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In a report released today, ECDC outlines key strategic and operational considerations to inform preparedness planning around the design and implementation of Public Health and Social Measures (PHSMs) in the EU/EEA for health emergencies and pandemics.

Skills, resources and systems are the key challenges that need to be addressed to advance the use of behavioural and cultural insights (BCI) in countries, according to a study conducted by WHO/Europe jointly with ECDC.

Since the disease was first identified in Saudi Arabia in April 2012, approximately over 2 600 MERS-CoV cases have been detected in over 27 countries.

On this episode we are joined by Otilia Mårdh, Medical Epidemiologist at ECDC, to discuss the latest reports on sexually transmitted infections in Europe.