Weekly releases (1997–2007) - Volume 11, Issue 37, 14 September 2006

On 27 March 2006, the Institut de Veille Sanitaire (InVS) was alerted to a cluster of Clostridium difficile associated disease (CDAD) in a healthcare facility in northern France

As a result of the reports of outbreaks of diarrhoea due to Clostridium difficile North American Pulse field type 1, PCR ribotype 027, toxinotype III in North America, United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Belgium, two different surveillance systems for C. difficile-associated diarrhoea were set up in Belgium

We report the first isolate of C. difficile 027 documented in Austria. On 9 March 2006, in a local hospital in Tyrol, west Austria, a 69 year old British woman was admitted to hospital

From 1 July to 13 September 2006, 878 cases of acute neurological syndrome were notified to the National Institute of Public Health, Pristina, from 24 out of 30 municipalities of the UN administered territory of Kosovo.

Since the beginning of 2006, the French Trichinella National Reference Centre has been notified of three incidents of trichinellosis due to the consumption of wild boar meat