Weekly releases (1997–2007) - Volume 8, Issue 12, 18 March 2004

Tuberculosis (TB) remains a leading cause of illness in the world and the second most common cause of death from infectious disease

The prevalence of multidrug resistant TB is exceptionally high in all the former countries of the Soviet Union surveyed by the World Health Organization

The first large outbreak of multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR TB) in the Netherlands has been reported

On 16 March 2004, the Department of Health in England announced that people who have received a blood transfusion in the UK since 1 January 1980 will no longer be able to donate blood

A joint study carried out by the Health Protection Agency for England and Wales and the UK Local Authorities Coordinators of Regulatory Services has examined eggs from catering premises in relation to their use and contamination with Salmonella spp

The Danish Integrated Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring and Research Programme (DANMAP) has published its annual report