Eurosurveillance - Volume 5, Issue 11, 01 November 2000

Ninety-three cases of legionnaires’ disease (43 confirmed, 12 presumptive, and 38 possible/ clinical) were identified in an outbreak associated with a trade fair in Kapellen, Belgium in November 1999. Five cases died. Epidemiological investigation showed

A network of epidemiologists, microbiologists, veterinarians, and clinicians is being developed in Germany to support local and state health departments and veterinary authorities in their research and epidemiological investigations on emerging foodborne

Sixteen culture confirmed cases of enteric infection with Salmonella enterica serotype Oranienburg were detected between August 10 and September 29 1999 in Tyrol (Austria). Ten of them suffered bloody diarrhoea and six were asymptomatic carriers. Intervie