Eurosurveillance - Volume 13, Issue 1, 03 January 2008

From this issue of Eurosurveillance, the two previous electronic releases (weekly and monthly) of the journal have been merged into one. The new Eurosurveillance is published every Thursday, with rapid updates on major public health events and news items alongside longer scientific articles and reviews. At the same time we are updating our editorial policy (http://www.eurosurveillance.org/editorial_policy/index.asp) and reviewing the types of articles (http://www.eurosurveillance.org/authors/index.asp) to better reflect our commitment to covering all aspects of epidemiology, prevention and control of communicable diseases from a European perspective.

Since early October 2007, the Bavarian Health Authority (BHA) has noticed an increased number of measles cases in Bavaria, Germany. A total of 95 cases occurred between week 41 and 51 in 2007, whereas only three cases had been notified to the District Health Authorities (DHA) during the same period in 2006.