Eurosurveillance - Volume 3, Issue 5, 01 May 1998

The European Union countries are outside the endemic area for malaria, but many cases of malaria contracted elsewhere are imported into Europe each year. Several countries have reported high and increasing numbers of imported cases in recent years (France

In France, surveillance of legionnaires’ disease started in 1987 with a mandatory clinician-based notification system. An average of 54 cases were reported yearly between 1988 and 1995 and six non-nosocomial clusters were identified. In 1995 the surveilla

The HIV/AIDS epidemic in Europe is now at an important turning point. In western Europe, AIDS incidence has been declining since 1996, partly as a result of new, more effective treatment of HIV infections. As these treatments delay the progression of HIV

The Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS) in Rome, in collaboration with the Public Health Laboratory Service (PHLS) in London, and the Swedish Institute for Infectious Diseases Control (SIIDC) in Stockholm, is conducting a scientific and technical analysis