Weekly releases (1997–2007) - Volume 10, Issue 33, 18 August 2005

Highly pathogenic avian influenza seems to have spread westward in Russian bird populations. Authorities are reporting new outbreaks of infections in birds at 15 poultry farms around the city of Chelyabinsk, immediately east of the Ural mountains

A cluster of Escherichia coli O157 infections has been identified in tourists returning to Scotland from Turkey. Since 25 July 2005, 10 confirmed and 5 suspected cases of E. coli O157 infection have been reported to Health Protection Scotland

In April 2003, a vaccine-derived poliovirus Sabin 2 (VDPV) was isolated from sewage water in Vrakuna, a Bratislava city district in western Slovakia

Pertussis is a mandatorily notifiable disease in Slovenia and since 1959, there has been an active national immunisation programmme. Since the start of this programme, the annual number of notified cases has fallen sharply

Available clinical and scientific evidence for the management of severe malaria in children has recently been gathered and translated into a proposal for a guideline for the United Kingdom