Weekly releases (1997–2007) - Volume 11, Issue 12, 23 March 2006

Eurosurveillance is recruiting a Managing Editor and an Assistant Editor. The posts are to be based in Stockholm at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).

Seven human cases of infection with highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) in Azerbaijan have now been confirmed

In 2004, 414 163 tuberculosis cases were notified by 51 of the 52 countries of the World Health Organization European Region, representing 8% of notifications to WHO worldwide in the same year. Seventy per cent of all TB cases in the region were in the 12 countries of the Former Soviet Union

Between mid-January and 23 March 2006, 246 cases of measles were notified in the federal region of Nordrhein Westfalen

On 1 January 2005, rubella infection during pregnancy and congenital rubella syndrome/infection were made statutorily notifiable in Italy, as recommended by the national plan for the elimination of measles and congenital rubella

Two recently published international studies have advanced knowledge of the worldwide distribution of human papillomavirus types and of the cause of cervical adenocarcinomas – a category of disease that forms a small but important and increasing proportion of all cervical cancers