Weekly releases (1997–2007) - Volume 2, Issue 4, 22 January 1998

The surveillance of communicable diseases in Europe as a whole has progressed steadily over the past few years. Several highly effective networks enable experts to interchange data and information. They have also demonstrated their ability to identify threats to the public health and have helped to ensure that effective responses have been made to those threats. The description of the outbreak of legionellosis below is an excellent example of this.