Eurosurveillance - Volume 5, Issue 10, 01 October 2000

In the past decade, strengthening tuberculosis (TB) surveillance has become a public health priority in Europe. In western Europe, TB case rates slowed their previous decline, but in eastern Europe dramatic increases, often with doubling of rates, were re

Antituberculosis drug resistance, whose extent in Europe is not well documented, is a serious threat to tuberculosis control. The aim of the recent European recommendations on antituberculosis drug resistance surveillance, issued by a working group compos

The Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy crisis provoked a fundamental re-appraisal of the way in which the European Community approaches matters of food safety. Between 28 July 1989, when restrictions on the dispatch of certain live cattle from the UK starte