Category: Covid-19

This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 4-10 September 2022 and includes updates on COVID-19, monkeypox, West Nile virus infection, Ebola, Vibrio growth, dengue, and MERS-CoV.

The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA) have issued a joint statement (link) providing updated public health considerations on the use of the newly authorised adapted COVID-19 vaccines to support the planning of the autumn and winter vaccination campaigns.

This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 28 August-3 September 2022 and includes updates on COVID-19, monkeypox, West Nile virus, increase in hepatitis cases of unknown aetiology in children, Vibrio, and poliomyelitis.

This document sets out a number of scenarios that are intended to be plausible, internally consistent, and coherent descriptions of possible futures.

In order to maintain safe school environments and minimise student and staff absences, it is important to continue ensuring the prevention of the transmission of respiratory viruses such as influenza, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), norovirus and SARS-CoV-2.

This protocol outlines the methods for a prospective cohort study in long-term care facilities (LTCFs) to evaluate the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines in preventing laboratory-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 symptomatic infection in LTCF residents.

This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 14-20 August 2022 and includes updates on COVID-19, monkeypox, West Nile virus infection, swine influenza, Vibrio growth, poliovirus and poliomyelitis.

This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 7-13 August 2022 and includes updates on West Nile virus infection, COVID-19, monkeypox, measles, Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever, Langya henipavirus, dengue, mass gatherings at the Birmingham 2022 commonwealth games, Vibrio growth, swine influenza and polio.

This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 31 July-6 August and includes updates on West Nile virus infection, monkeypox, COVID-19, cholera, diphteria, anthrax, Vibrio growth, Marburg virus disease, mass gatherings at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth games, MERS-CoV, and Poliovirus.

The objective of this document is to present the available methods for detection and characterisation of circulating SARS-CoV-2 variants.