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Weekly releases (1997–2007) - Volume 12, Issue 16, 19 April 2007
Volume 12, Issue 16, 2007
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Large outbreak of viral gastroenteritis caused by contaminated drinking water in Apulia, Italy, May - October 2006
D Martinelli , R Prato , M Chironna , A Sallustio , G Caputi , M Conversano , M L Ciofi Degli Atti , F P D’Ancona , C A Germinario and M QuartoAt the end of July 2006, an unusually high number of patients with acute diarrhoea were reported by the accident and emergency departments in Taranto, Apulia. Subsequently, a field investigation was conducted jointly by the Apulia Regional Epidemiological Observatory and the Regional Reference Laboratory in Bari, and the Epidemiological Department of Taranto Local Health Unit.
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An ongoing outbreak of lymphogranuloma venereum in the Netherlands, 2006-2007
As reported previously, lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV) has emerged as a significant public health problem in the Netherlands since an outbreak among mainly HIV-positive men having sex with men (MSM) in Rotterdam in 2004 [1,2]. As of March 2007, 232 confirmed cases of LGV had been reported in the Netherlands.
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Sporadic human cases of cowpox in Germany
Cowpox has been enzootic in cattle for a long time. Over the past years, however, no cowpox virus infections of cattle were diagnosed in Germany. Instead, cowpox viruses are increasingly found in cats, which can develop lesions and secrete large amounts of virus.
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Interim H5N1 vaccine for humans approved in US
The United States’ Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced that it has approved a vaccine for humans against the H5N1 influenza virus [1]. This is the first such vaccine to be approved in the US.
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The European Network for Diagnostics of Imported Viral Diseases (ENIVD) – 12 years of strengthening the laboratory diagnostic capacity in Europe
Changes in lifestyle, travel, and migration, as well as other factors such as climate change and terrorism have increased the vulnerability of the human population to imported, rare, and emerging infections. Numerous virus outbreaks have occurred in recent years, such as Ebola haemorrhagic fever in Democratic Republic of Congo (1995, 2001-2003), Uganda (2000) and Gabon (2001-2003), West Nile fever in the United States since 1999, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in China in 2002, Chikungunya in the Indian Ocean and India since 2004/2005, and, most recently, avian influenza.
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Chikungunya in north-eastern Italy: a summing up of the outbreak
R Angelini , A C Finarelli , P Angelini , C Po , K Petropulacos , G Silvi , P Macini , C Fortuna , G Venturi , F Magurano , C Fiorentini , A Marchi , E Benedetti , P Bucci , S Boros , R Romi , G Majori , M G Ciufolini , L Nicoletti , G Rezza and A Cassone
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