Eurosurveillance - Volume 4, Issue 9, 01 September 1999

Between March and June 1999, 442 000 Kosovar refugees arrived in Albania. The national surveillance system was unprepared for this and an emergency communicable disease surveillance system was set up to detect and control potential outbreaks among the ref

Albania, a country with 3.5 million inhabitants, is facing an economic and social crisis. The average per capita income is less than US$1000 per year. Since 1995 unemployment has increased by 2.7%. Poverty and migration are major constraints of the societ

Transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from passenger to passenger aboard a long airplane flight was reported in 1996. Other cases were previously published, in particular by the Centers for Disease Control which had then suggested criteria for epidem

Salmonella bongori 48:z 35 :- was first isolated from a lizard in Chad in 1966 and was classified as a biochemically atypical strain of the subgenus I of Kauffmann. Successively, some additional strains with different antigenic formulas but similar bioche