Eurosurveillance - Volume 1, Issue 6, 01 June 1996

Over 30 years ago, AD Langmuir defined surveillance as “the ongoing systematic collection, collation and analysis of data and the prompt dissemination of the resulting information to those who need to know so that an action can result”. The countries of t

Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) was first described in 1920-1921. CJD is a rare disease with a reported incidence of 0.5 to 1 case per million people in Europe. This fatal dementia belongs to the category of Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSE)

Thirty-five European countries contributed surveillance data to the fourth annual report of the King's European Meningococcal Surveillance Unit in London, which gathers and shares information about the epidemiology of meningococcal disease to inform publi

Measles was very common in Belgium before 1985, affecting 95% of children before they reached the age of 15 years. In 1984 the incidence of measles, calculated using data from a general practitioner surveillance system, was 823/100 000 inhabitants (2). Wi