Weekly releases (1997–2007) - Volume 10, Issue 39, 29 September 2005

A series of recommendations to prevent the entry and transmission of avian influenza among bird flocks in Europe has been made by the European Food Safety Authority’s Panel on Animal Health and Welfare

Since 1992, infants in Ireland have been routinely immunised at two, four and six months against Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib), as part of the primary immunisation schedule.

Following the alert issued from the Netherlands in January 2004, an outbreak of lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV) was ascertained in men who have sex with men (MSM) in Antwerp in 2004

Andrea Infuso, medical epidemiologist, and coordinator of the European tuberculosis surveillance network EuroTB, died suddenly on 20 September 2005, at the age of 44.

A further position is being advertised at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) in Stockholm.