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Weekly releases (1997–2007) - Volume 7, Issue 2, 09 January 2003
Volume 7, Issue 2, 2003
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Heightened health security concern following ricin alert in the United Kingdom
On 7 January the Metropolitan Police and the English Department of Health’s Deputy Chief Medical Officer (CMO) made a joint statement (1) informing the public that seven people had been arrested in London on 5 January under the Terrorism Act 2000 (http://www.hmso.gov.uk/acts/acts2000/20000011.htm).
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Chemical threats in the EU Health Security Programme
A Baka , F van Loock , A Tegnell , L Vittozzi and G GouvrasAll projected tasks for the European Commission’s Task Force for Biological and Chemical Attacks (http://europa.eu.int/comm/health/ph/programmes/bio-terrorism/index_en.html) take both biological and chemical threats into account. The Task Force experts have compiled information from a series of valid lists of toxic threats, from bodies including the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), the Australia Group* (AG), the World Health Organization (WHO), the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and others. A list of suspicious chemicals and toxins is being finalised by the Task Force, working with their counterparts in the Global Health Security Initiative of the G7+ countries (1).
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Increasing laboratory confirmed cases of influenza in Europe, particularly cases of influenza B in the south west
Eleven networks in Europe reported no influenza activity to the European Influenza Surveillance Scheme (EISS, http://www.eiss.org/) in the week ending 29 December 2002 (week 52). Four networks reported sporadic activity (Belgium, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland), and one network (France) reported regional activity (1). A report of no influenza activity indicates that the overall level of clinical activity was at baseline levels. In France, influenza activity was the highest in the Rhône-Alpes (south east), the Midi-Pyrénées (south west) and the Normandy (north west) regions. The intensity of clinical activity was medium in Spain and low in all of the other networks.
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Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in the United Kingdom in 2002
The end of 2002 has seen a total of 129 definitive or probable cases of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) reported in the United Kingdom (UK)[1]. Elsewhere numbers remain small, with 8 cases in Europe (6 in France, 1 in Italy, and 1 in the Republic of Ireland) and a further 2 cases in North America (Canada and the United States).
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New issue of EpiNorth online (Vol 3, no 4)
The latest issue of EpiNorth (bulletin of the network for infectious disease control in the Barents and Baltic Sea Region) is now available online at www.epinorth.org
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Chikungunya in north-eastern Italy: a summing up of the outbreak
R Angelini , A C Finarelli , P Angelini , C Po , K Petropulacos , G Silvi , P Macini , C Fortuna , G Venturi , F Magurano , C Fiorentini , A Marchi , E Benedetti , P Bucci , S Boros , R Romi , G Majori , M G Ciufolini , L Nicoletti , G Rezza and A Cassone
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