This paper describes recent changes in the epizootical and epidemiological situation of rabies in Poland. Analysis of routine surveillance data on animal cases and human post-exposure...

In comparison with conventional methods of wildlife rabies control, oral rabies vaccination of foxes (ORV) is without doubt the most (cost-) effective method in wildlife rabies...

In Denmark, as part of the national laboratory-based surveillance system of human enteric infections, all S. Typhimurium isolates are currently sub-typed using phage typing,...

An outbreak of gastroenteritis due to Salmonella Enteritidis associated with an outdoor public holiday event occurred in a small village in southern Latvia on 21 July 2006. The...

Measles re-emerged in some counties in Germany in 2005, despite increasing vaccination coverage rates in children at school entry in recent years, which had led to decreasing...

Cet article est une analyse commentée d'une étude publiée dans la revue J Occup Environ Med 2005;62:543-460. Si les liens à court terme entre pollution atmosphérique et mortalité ont...

Listeriosis has been a mandatorily notifiable disease in Germany since January 2001. Clinical cases with isolation of Listeria monocytogenes from sterile specimens or neonates are...

Health authorities in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany have reported three cases of wound infections with the bacterium Vibrio vulnificus so far this summer. The patients...

L'Europe doit continuellement faire face à la menace que représentent les maladies zoonotiques incluant des bactéries anciennes telles que Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Cependant la...

Rabies due to two independent and different genotypes of lyssaviruses - European bat lyssaviruses (EBLV) type 1 and type 2 - is present in many European countries. Infection is usually...