Weekly releases (1997–2007) - Volume 10, Issue 11, 17 March 2005

In two nursing homes in Flanders, Belgium, four cases of acute hepatitis B infection have recently been detected, linked to the multiple use of blood capillary sampling devices on diabetic patients

Public health officials are investigating an outbreak of Salmonella Enteritidis phage type 1 linked to a shop selling kebabs in north east London

Laboratory confirmation of 24 cases of human infection with the A:H5N1 avian influenza virus have been reported in Vietnam since the end of December 2004, when a further upsurge in cases was reported after a lull in the Autumn of 2004

From the middle of June 2003 to 10 October 2003, six cases of tularaemia were confirmed in the Norwegian central and eastern counties of Oppland and Hedmark