Weekly releases (1997–2007) - Volume 11, Issue 17, 27 April 2006

‘Epidemic intelligence’ can be defined as all the activities related to early identification of potential health threats, their verification, assessment and investigation as a basis for recommending control measures.

Germany will be hosting the upcoming 2006 Football World Cup, scheduled to take place from June 9 to July 9. The games are expected to draw 3.2 million fans from within Germany, as well as many other countries.

The influenza pandemic preparedness plans for 21 of 29 European countries, published between January 2002 and November 2005, were recently reviewed and compared against a series of attributes based on the 2005 checklist produced by the World Health Organization