Weekly releases (1997–2007) - Volume 12, Issue 7, 15 February 2007

More than 1300 cases of mumps were reported in Navarre, an autonomous community in northeast Spain, between August 2006 and January 2007. The first outbreak of 19 cases was reported on 10 August in Viana, a village with a population of 3860 people.

On 21 January 2007, an increase in deaths among geese at a farm near Lapistó village (Csongrád county in southern Hungary) was reported to the Hungarian veterinary authorities.

The recently reported outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) due to influenza type A/H5N1 in Hungary and then the United Kingdom (UK) have caused considerable disquiet and interest in the agriculture industry and the media.

In September 2005, an outbreak of cryptosporidiosis with co-infection of Cyclospora occurred in western Turkey, in a village about 25 kilometres from Izmir, the country’s third largest city.