Weekly releases (1997–2007) - Volume 5, Issue 39, 27 September 2001

Last year, Eurosurveillance Weekly reported on the potential use of diseases such as anthrax, smallpox, and plague in biological warfare (1-3). The reports were based on a series of articles published in JAMA that also discussed diseases such as tularaemia and agents such as botulinum toxin (4-8).

Norway’s Statens institutt for folkehelse (National Institute of Public Health, NIPH) has recently noticed an unusually high number of cases infected with Salmonella Enteritidis after a stay in Crete or Karpathos.