Between 2012 and 2024, a prolonged outbreak of 73 cases of L. monocytogenes ST173 infections ('My2' -cluster) has been ongoing in Belgium (5), Czechia (1), Germany (39), Finland (2), Italy (1), the Netherlands (20), and the United Kingdom (UK) (5). Fourteen deaths have been recorded as...

This report presents the results of the 12th round of the external quality assessment (EQA-12) scheme for typing of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC). This EQA was organised for national public health reference laboratories (NPHRLs) providing data to the Food- and Waterborne Diseases...

Highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) viruses continue to be widespread in wild bird populations across the European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA). Viruses circulating in wild birds have spilled over to both wild and domestic/farmed animals, leading to outbreaks in poultry and other...

ECDC considers CRAb a key priority pathogen, amenable to 'strategy-orientated surveillance' as 'sentinel surveillance or surveys' of the ECDC European Antimicrobial Resistance Genes Surveillance Network (EURGen-Net). This ECDC survey protocol describes the technical requirements for implementing...

For convenience, the full text of the survey's aim and public health objectives are specified here. The aim is to conduct a survey of CRAb identified in clinical laboratories in European countries, to acquire a snapshot of circulating strains for the purposes of genomic surveillance; and to...

The monkeypox virus (MPXV) clade I epidemic that has been affecting the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) since November 2023 has recently spread to several other African countries including Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda and Kenya. The size of these outbreaks could be larger than reported due to...

In June and July 2024, 19 imported cases of Oropouche virus disease were reported for the first time in EU countries: Spain (12), Italy (5), and Germany (2). Eighteen of the cases had a travel history to Cuba and one to Brazil. Oropouche virus disease is a zoonotic disease caused by the...