Eurosurveillance - Volume 1, Issue 4, 01 April 1996

Eurosurveillance this month presents European liaisons for the surveillance and control of communicable diseases at different stages of development. HELICS - the scheme for standardising the data collected about hospital acquired infections - has come and

A measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) trivalent vaccine was added to Portugal's National Immunisation Programme (NIP) in 1987. All vaccines are given at health centres, free of charge, but an epidemic of mumps began in 1995, firstly in northern Portugal and

An outbreak of viral meningitis began in Cyprus on 5 July 1996. By 28 August a total of 316 cases had been admitted to hospital, most of whom were infants and young children; 55 (17%) were less than 1 year of age, 117 (37%) were aged 1 to 4 years, 103 (33

During the 1990s several European countries began to set up national or regional networks for the surveillance of hospital acquired infections. Most of these networks were based on the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Nosocomia

The European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET) provides practical experience in infectious disease epidemiology. EPIET aims to create a network of professionals throughout Europe trained to use a standard approach in intervention ep

Eurosurveillance is available electronically for readers with access to the internet on the world wide web at the home page of the European Centre for the Epidemiological Monitoring of AIDS. At the site a menu describes the bulletin and lists the particip