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Zika virus disease - Outbreak in the Americas (18)
Yellow fever (10)
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) (1)
Mycobacterium chimaera (1)
Guillain-Barré syndrome (1)
Travellers' health (3)
Infectious diseases on aircrafts (3)
Pacific regions (1)
Epidemiological update (36)
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Epidemiological update: Autochthonous cases of chikungunya fever on the Caribbean island of Saint Martin, 20 December 2013
​As of 19 December 2013, the local health authorities of the French Caribbean Islands reported 26 confirmed and 12 probable autochthonous cases of chikungunya on the island of Saint Martin.
Epidemiological update: autochthonous cases of chikungunya fever in the Caribbean region, 4 January 2014
Epidemiological update - 9 Jan 2014
​An outbreak of chikungunya in the Caribbean region was reported from the French part of the island of Saint Martin on 5 December 2013.
Epidemiological update: autochthonous cases of chikungunya fever in the Caribbean region, 19 January 2014
Epidemiological update - 19 Jan 2014
​It is the first time that autochthonous transmission of the virus has been documented in the Americas. Clinicians and travel medicine clinics should remain vigilant regarding imported dengue and chikungunya cases from the Caribbean.
Epidemiological update: autochthonous cases of chikungunya fever in the Caribbean region, 6 February 2014
Epidemiological update - 6 Feb 2014
​An outbreak of chikungunya in the Caribbean region was reported from the French part of the island of Saint Martin on 6 December 2013. It is the first time that autochthonous transmission of the virus has been documented in the Americas.
Epidemiological update: autochthonous cases of chikungunya fever in the Caribbean region and South America, 21 February 2014
​​An outbreak of chikungunya in the Caribbean region was reported from the French part of the island of Saint Martin on 6 December 2013. It is the first time that autochthonous transmission of the virus has been documented in the Americas.
Epidemiological update: autochthonous cases of chikungunya fever in the Caribbean region and South America, 4 June 2014
​On 6 December 2013, France reported two laboratory-confirmed autochthonous cases of chikungunya in the French part of the Caribbean island of Saint Martin. It is the first time that autochthonous transmission of the virus has been documented in the Americas.
Epidemiological update: invasive infections with Mycobacterium chimaera potentially associated with heater-cooler units used during cardiac surgery
​On 21 May, Public Health England (PHE) reported that a retrospective investigation identified 13 patients with endocarditis, surgical site infection or disseminated infection with Mycobacterium chimaera or other Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) species within four years of surgery involving cardiopulmorary bypass.
Mycobacterium chimaera
Epidemiological update: Complications potentially linked to the Zika virus outbreak, Brazil and French Polynesia
​On 18 April 2014, the Hellenic Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (KEELPNO) announced a laboratory confirmed case of MERS-CoV infection in a 69 year old male patient.
Guillain-Barré syndrome
Epidemiological update: Evolution of the Zika virus global outbreaks and complications potentially linked to the Zika virus outbreaks
Epidemiological update - 3 Dec 2015
​​Outbreaks of Zika virus are evolving around the world, and complications potentially linked to the outbreaks become clearer.
Epidemiological update: Outbreaks of Zika virus and complications potentially linked to the Zika virus infection, 17 December 2015
No autochthonous cases of Zika virus infection have been reported in EU Member States so far in 2015. In the past month, one imported case was reported in the Netherlands in a traveller who returned from Suriname on 29 November 2015 after a 3-week holiday in that country.
Zika virus disease - Outbreak in the Americas