Weekly releases (1997–2007) - Volume 11, Issue 36, 07 September 2006

So far in 2006, in Sweden, there have been four outbreaks of norovirus gastroenteritis where raspberries were the suspected vehicle of infection. The first outbreak occurred at the end of June,

A retrospective serologic and risk factor population-based household survey for influenza virus type A/H5N1 infection was carried out in a Cambodian village where there had been extensive poultry deaths attributed to A/H5N1

In the summer of 2005, about 200 people who spent time on or near beaches in a stretch of the northwest Italian coast around the city of Genova, sought medical treatment for

In July 2006, vaccination against meningococcal C and pneumococcal disease was added to the routine childhood immunisation programme in Germany

On 10 February 2004, the specialist respiratory nurse for a hospital in a city in South Wales alerted the local health authorities that Mycobacterium tuberculosis infections

Eurosurveillance recently reported on the surveillance system set up in Italy for the 2006 Olympic Winter Games [1,2]. Some of the competitions of the 2006 Olympic Winter Games in Torino, Piemonte, Italy