Health Alerts

A Eurosurveillance report on the exceptional tularaemia outbreak this year highlights the surge in cases in central districts – 13 of the 15 hardest-hit municipalities were in the region. The 979 cases registered up to Oct 6 represent a 4-fold increase over the previous 18 years’ averages and almost 75% of infections were contracted through insect bites. The report also noted that the current 2019 total ‘is higher than what has been reported in any single year since the end of the 1960s and it is more than are reported from the whole of Europe during a normal year’. Read more.