Weekly releases (1997–2007) - Volume 10, Issue 23, 09 June 2005

As of 8 June 2005, 55 cases of legionnaires’ disease including ten deaths have been diagnosed associated with an outbreak in southeast Norway

In August and September 2004, a large outbreak of hepatitis A occurred involving tourists staying at a specific hotel in the Egyptian resort of Hurghada. A total of 351 cases associated with this outbreak

A pilot project to screen 1000 woman aged between 18 and 30 years for genital chlamydia infection in the Nova Gorica region of Slovenia is underway.

A live attenuated vaccine reduces the burden of herpes zoster (shingles) in older adults, according to the recently published results of a randomised, double-blind trial