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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.

The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has published its latest Annual Epidemiological Reports shedding light on the state of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA).

A team of scientific coordinators from the MediPIET training program recently took part in site visits to Montenegro and Serbia. These visits, held from 29 February to 1 March in Montenegro and from 4 to 5 March in Serbia, aimed to assess the progress and impact of the program in these respective countries.

In this interview Dr. Halushko talks about the critical role that social and behavioral sciences play in addressing public health challenges in Ukraine and provides some perspectives for future interventions.

On today's episode, we sit down with Ines Steffens, editor-in-chief of Eurosurveillance. Eurosurveillance is an open-access peer-reviewed scientific journal devoted to the epidemiology, surveillance, prevention and control of communicable diseases

A comprehensive two-day workshop held from 27 to 28 February in Krakow, Poland, shed light on the significance of social and behavioural sciences in combatting infectious diseases across Ukraine and adjacent EU countries.

ECDC completed a technical visit to Albania as part of its efforts to bolster the surveillance of communicable diseases in the country.

Resistance of Salmonella and Campylobacter bacteria to commonly used antimicrobials continues to be observed frequently in humans and animals, according to a report issued today by EFSA and ECDC.

The Multivariable Analysis Module, held from 19-23 February 2024, strengthened public health practitioners’ epidemiological data analysis skills.

The European Commission has launched a call for expression of interest aiming at the selection of the ECDC Advisory Forum members.

Countries that have decreased their consumption of antibiotics in both animals and humans have seen a reduction in antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

On 20 February 2024, the Management Board of ECDC nominated Dr Pamela Rendi-Wagner to be the next Director of ECDC for a five-year period (2024-2029).

During the 2023 West Nile virus transmission season, and as of 4 January 2024, 709 locally acquired human cases of West Nile virus infection, including 67 deaths, were reported by nine European Union countries.

In a move to bolster health preparedness in the EU`s neighbourhood regions and EU/EEA countries, ECDC organised a comprehensive training focusing on Epidemic Intelligence (EI) and Rapid Risk Assessment (RRA).

ECDC is gearing up for a dynamic year of training sessions, capacity-building, and collaboration with European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) partner countries through its annual work programme for 2024.

Measles cases are expected to continue increasing in the EU/EEA in the coming months due to sub-optimal vaccination coverage for measles-containing vaccines (MCV) in a number of EU/EEA countries.

This special episode is hosted by James Ramsey, Head of the Communication Unit at the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). He is joined by experts from ECDC, EFSA, the European Medicines Agency (EMA), the European Environment Agency (EEA), and the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) to discuss the One Health perspective.

Since the most recent ECDC rapid risk assessment in 2021, the number of EU/EEA countries reporting hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae (hvKp) sequence type (ST) 23 has increased from four to ten and the number of cases reported to ECDC by the countries, increased from 12 to 143.