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Portugal: Measles cases rise in Lisbon area

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The number of confirmed measles cases in the Lisbon and Tagus Valley region has risen to 15, including two children, according to a local media report (computer translated). Five confirmed cases are in...

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Polish eggs linked to multi-country outbreak of Salmonella in Europe update

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European health officials reported more than 1,400 Salmonella cases since 2012 in 18 countries in an ongoing outbreak linked to Polish eggs. In total, 1,412 Salmonella Enteritidis cases have been found...

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Dengue fever: Autochthonous case reported in Catalonia

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In a follow-up on the local transmission of dengue fever in Spain, a young man from Barcelona was diagnosed with dengue fever in Catalonia earlier this month. The patient had no recent travel history. Health...

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Italy: Measles outbreak in Bari ‘under control’

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Italian health officials reported this week ( computer translated) that the measles outbreak in the port city of Bari is now under control. The first epidemiological data reported by the Observatory of...

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Rabies death reported in UK traveler to Morocco

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England health officials issued a travel warning this week after a UK resident died after becoming infected with rabies following a cat bite during a visit to Morocco. Dr Mary Ramsay, Head of Immunizations...

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Greece reports nine recent locally acquired malaria cases

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Greek health officials have reported nine autochthonous non-Plasmodium falciparum malaria cases since August. Case investigation of the nine introduced cases (eight P.vivax and one P.non-falciparum)...

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Serbia reports 23 measles cases in past month

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In an update on the ongoing measles outbreak in the Republic of Serbia, Institute of Public Health of Serbia reported (computer translated) 23 additional measles cases in October–17 in Belgrade...

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Meningitis B confirmed in two students at the University of Bristol

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Two cases of meningitis B have been confirmed in students at the University of Bristol. Both students, who are friends, have been receiving treatment in hospital in Cardiff and are recovering well, University...

Error bars are 95% uncertainty intervals. Greece did not report data on S pneumoniae isolates to the European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Network in 2015. DALY rates are age-standardised to limit the effect of demographic differences across countries; numbers of cases and deaths are not age-standardised. DALYs=disability-adjusted life-years. *Excludes those resistant to carbapenem or colistin. †In 2015, most of the third-generation cephalosporin-resistant E coli (88·6%) and K pneumoniae (85·3%) isolates reported to the European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Network produced an extended-spectrum β-lactamase. Image/ECDC/TLID

Europe: Antibiotic resistant bacterial infections linked to 33,000 deaths annually

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A study, published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, estimates that about 33,000 people die each year as a direct consequence of an infection due to bacteria resistant to antibiotics and that the burden...

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Spain dengue: Two additional autochthonous cases reported in Murcia

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In a follow-up on the locally transmitted dengue fever cases reported in the Region of Murcia, Spain (HERE and HERE), the Ministry of Health of Murcia and the National Center for Microbiology (CNM) of...