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Romania and Italy measles update, EU court ruling on vaccines

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First in some troubling news out of Europe, The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled last Wednesday that vaccines can be blamed for causing illnesses even if there is no scientific proof...

Romania: 18 hospitalized with suspected meningitis, one dead

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A suspected meningitis outbreak in Braşov, Romania has resulted in 18 hospital admissions and one death, according to a News.ro report (computer translated). The patients, classmates with a 17-year-old...

France reports 6-times the measles compared to 2016, Health minister wants compulsory vaccines

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The number of measles cases reported in France during the first five months of 2017 is 295, according to Sante publique France (computer translated). This is six-times the number of cases reported during...

Ciguatera fish poisoning increases in Europe

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The substance ciguatoxin is only found in fish from tropical and subtropical seas. For some years now, cases of ciguatera have been reported with increasing frequency in Europe, in particular on the Spanish...

Measles in Italy nears 3,000 cases, Compulsory vaccinations law challenged

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About a month after the Italian government made childhood vaccines compulsory for the country’s schools, some regions in the country’s north are challenging the decree, according to a Local.it...

Sweden reports increase on gonorrhea in 2017 to date

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According to Sweden’s Public Health Agency (Folkhälsomyndigheten), the number of gonorrhea cases reported through May 2017 is more than 250 cases higher compared to the same period in 2016. The...

Ukraine botulism outbreak sickens dozens in three months, most linked to dried fish

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The number of botulism cases reported in Ukraine during the past three months has risen to 62, according to the Deputy Minister of Health of Ukraine on European integration Oksana Sivak. Of this total,...

Ukraine reports hundreds of measles cases, vaccination rates low

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Ukraine has reported an increase in measles cases in 2017, according to the Public Health Center (PHC) of Ukraine Thursday (computer translated). The current case count stands at 735, and the vaccination...

Vaccination: Main prevention measure to address hepatitis A outbreaks among MSM

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1,173 confirmed hepatitis A cases involving three separate clusters have been reported across 15 countries of the European Union since June 2016. Several EU countries have seen large increases in hepatitis...

Wales: Five measles cases reported at Newport high school

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Successful vaccination sessions have been held at six primary schools in the same locality as a Newport high school at the centre of a measles outbreak. MMR vaccinations were offered to pupils at Somerton...