Eurosurveillance - Volume 5, Issue 5, 01 May 2000

The recent union of the monthly bulletin Eurosurveillance and its all-electronic sister Eurosurveillance Weekly into a unique project marked the start of a new stage in their development. Eurosurveillance began publication in 1996 and Eurosurveillance Wee

Sixty-two per cent of elderly and disabled residents of a Dutch nursing home (74/120) and 32% of staff (33/102) became ill in an outbreak of Norwalk-like viral gastroenteritis. The outbreak spread from person to person was supported by temporal clustering

One hundred and forty-four cases of mumps were notified in a religious community in London between July 1998 and April 1999 and the infection was confirmed in 82% of those who underwent saliva testing (51/62). Half of the clinical and half of the confirme