Weekly releases (1997–2007) - Volume 10, Issue 16, 21 April 2005

Cases of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) infection were recently detected for the first time in Ireland

Health ministers from all 25 countries of the European Union met with the European Commissioner for Health and Consumer protection in Paris for an informal EU health ministerial meeting on cancer, HIV/AIDS and influenza

The European Commission has published a proposal to establish a new combined public health and consumer policy programme

Human brucellosis has been a statutorily notifiable disease in Spain since 1943. Since 1992, there has been a sharp decline in the number of reported cases, marking the beginning of a new phase of low incidence that has been maintained over the last 4 years

At the beginning of 2005, a new and completely revised communicable disease notification was launched nationwide in Turkey