Since 2022, the continuous spread of highly pathogenic type A subtype H5N1 avian influenza virus has caused outbreaks in poultry worldwide. This has led to infections in various wildlife and domestic mammalian species, including recent outbreaks among cows in the United States (US), as well as s...
Candidozyma auris (formerly Candida auris) poses a risk for patients in healthcare facilities across Europe due to its ability to cause severe infections in critically ill patients, its potential resistance to several antifungal agents, which makes infections difficult to treat, and its propensi...
Effective surveillance is crucial for tracking HIV/AIDS trends, informing prevention efforts, and guiding healthcare planning. Routine HIV and AIDS data collection also supports risk analysis, incidence modelling, and policy development, while monitoring key sustainable development goal indicato...
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) is cooperating with countries in the Western Balkans and Türkiye to improve their infectious disease prevention and control systems and public health workforce in order to prepare them for their future participation in the Centre’s wo...
The aim of the Public Health Emergency Preparedness Assessment, as mandated in Article 8 of the Regulation (EU) 2022/2371 on serious cross border threats to health, is to improve prevention, preparedness and response planning in European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) countries through th...
ECDC proposes to issue the 2025 call for application for EURLs for public health in the area of respiratory viruses to ensure continued laboratory support and capacity-building activities for Europe on these high importance/high impact pathogens. - The area of respiratory viruses is suggested to...
The aim of the Public Health Emergency Preparedness Assessment, as mandated in Article 8 of the EU Regulation on serious cross-border threat to health, is to improve prevention, preparedness and response planning in EU/EEA countries through the implementation of evidence-based recommendations fo...
This report describes the legal background and the operational laboratory support context in which the implementation of the European Reference laboratories (from here on ‘EURLs’) for public health take place. It also describes the recommended general setup of EURLs and integration into ECDC dis...
