Weekly releases (1997–2007) - Volume 11, Issue 34, 24 August 2006

We report a situation update of imported chinkungunya infections in metropolitan France (the part of France that is in Europe, including the Mediterranean island of Corsica), from April 2005 to June 2006

On 9 July 2006, local public health authorities became aware of an increase of influenza-like illness in people who worked at a meat processing plant where cattle and sheep were slaughtered

The first Enter-net annual report has been published [1]. This report is for 2004, and will shortly be followed by that for 2005.

The guidelines of the European Working Group for Legionella Infections (EWGLI) [1] are mainly based on epidemiological criteria, because clinical diagnosis of the infection is seldom based on the isolation of this bacterium from the patient