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Editor, Senior Moderator
Monitoring current threats: ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR), week 33
20 Aug 2012
ECDC
Since the beginning of the year, Austria, Belgium, Germany and Hungary have report cases of Salmonella Stanley with the majority of the cases in children under nine years of age. All the patients presented as sporadic local cases, with no recent travel history outside of the European Union. Pulsed field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) profiling found indistinguishable profiles in the strains suggesting a common source which has not yet been identified. Investigations in Austria have shown that this outbreak might be related the contamination of the turkey meat chain.
The 2012 West Nile fever transmission season is currently on-going, with 58 probable and confirmed cases reported in the European Union (EU) and 97 in EU neighbouring countries so far. In week 33, Greece reported 13 new cases across nine prefectures, two of which have been newly affected. Astrakhanskaya oblast in Russia reported 17 new cases and Tunisia reported a first case in the Moknine commune.
Human infections with a novel influenza A(H3N2) variant virus of swine origin (A(H3N2)v), including a genetic component from the 2009 pandemic virus, have been reported in the United States (US) since July 2011. Until April 2012, 13 cases were reported while a further 153 cases have been notified between July and 9 August 2012. Although most cases occurred in Indiana and Ohio, nine US States were involved (Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Pennsylvania, Utah, West Virginia, Hawaii, Illinois, and Ohio). Following substantial increased reporting this summer, ECDC updated its risk assessment from last year.
Read the full Communicable Disease Threats Report, week 33
http://ecdc.europa.eu/en/press/news...t=32e43ee8-e230-4424-a783-85742124029a&ID=706
20 Aug 2012
ECDC
Since the beginning of the year, Austria, Belgium, Germany and Hungary have report cases of Salmonella Stanley with the majority of the cases in children under nine years of age. All the patients presented as sporadic local cases, with no recent travel history outside of the European Union. Pulsed field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) profiling found indistinguishable profiles in the strains suggesting a common source which has not yet been identified. Investigations in Austria have shown that this outbreak might be related the contamination of the turkey meat chain.
The 2012 West Nile fever transmission season is currently on-going, with 58 probable and confirmed cases reported in the European Union (EU) and 97 in EU neighbouring countries so far. In week 33, Greece reported 13 new cases across nine prefectures, two of which have been newly affected. Astrakhanskaya oblast in Russia reported 17 new cases and Tunisia reported a first case in the Moknine commune.
Human infections with a novel influenza A(H3N2) variant virus of swine origin (A(H3N2)v), including a genetic component from the 2009 pandemic virus, have been reported in the United States (US) since July 2011. Until April 2012, 13 cases were reported while a further 153 cases have been notified between July and 9 August 2012. Although most cases occurred in Indiana and Ohio, nine US States were involved (Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Pennsylvania, Utah, West Virginia, Hawaii, Illinois, and Ohio). Following substantial increased reporting this summer, ECDC updated its risk assessment from last year.
Read the full Communicable Disease Threats Report, week 33
http://ecdc.europa.eu/en/press/news...t=32e43ee8-e230-4424-a783-85742124029a&ID=706