Out of the 31 EU and EFTA countries, 30 countries have reported a total of 16,969 confirmed cases, including 33 deaths. In the past 24 hours, 874 new cases (no fatal case) were reported from the EU and EFTA countries.

Out of the 31 EU and EFTA countries, 30 countries have reported a total of 16,969 confirmed cases, including 33 deaths. In the past 24 hours, 874 new cases (no fatal case) were reported from the EU and EFTA countries.

Proactive school closures, that is, closing schools ahead of a pandemic arriving in an area, is a public health measure that has been commonly suggested for mitigating the impact of pandemics. It has been suggested that they could help because children are considered to be more infectious and susceptible to seasonal influenza than adults and can therefore be important vectors of transmission.

Proactive school closures, that is, closing schools ahead of a pandemic arriving in an area, is a public health measure that has been commonly suggested for mitigating the impact of pandemics. It has been suggested that they could help because children are considered to be more infectious and susceptible to seasonal influenza than adults and can therefore be important vectors of transmission.

Out of the 31 EU and EFTA countries, 30 countries have reported a total of 16,095 confirmed cases, including 33 deaths. In the past 24 hours, 36 new cases (no fatal case) were reported from the EU and EFTA countries.

Out of the 31 EU and EFTA countries, 30 countries have reported a total of 16,095 confirmed cases, including 33 deaths. In the past 24 hours, 36 new cases (no fatal case) were reported from the EU and EFTA countries.

Out of the 31 EU and EFTA countries, 30 countries have reported a total of 16,059 confirmed cases, including 33 deaths. In the past 24 hours, 169 new cases and 1 fatal case were confirmed from the EU and EFTA countries.

Out of the 31 EU and EFTA countries, 30 countries have reported a total of 16,059 confirmed cases, including 33 deaths. In the past 24 hours, 169 new cases and 1 fatal case were confirmed from the EU and EFTA countries.

Out of the 31 EU and EFTA countries, 30 countries have reported a total of 15,890 confirmed cases, including 16 deaths. In the past 24 hours, 1,231 new cases and no fatal cases were confirmed from the EU and EFTA countries.

Overview on 8,596 cases reported by 28 EU/EEA countries

Changes in the genetic makeup of the influenza virus call for new vaccines on an annual basis. Assessing and monitoring the effectiveness of pandemic vaccines is essential once they become available. Although strain-specific pandemic vaccines are expected to be effective, the early availability of vaccine effectiveness estimates could make a valuable contribution to the success of vaccination campaigns. The generic study protocols presented here summarise all relevant methodological issues related to conducting cohort database studies aimed at measuring vaccine effectiveness for seasonal and A(H1N1)v influenza. All protocols were developed as part of an ECDC project entitled I-MOVE (Influenza Monitoring of Vaccine Effectiveness). Based on these protocols, a number of specific studies will be conducted during the current influenza A(H1N1)v virus pandemic.

This publication presents the core European protocol for a series of proposed influenza vaccine effectiveness studies. The protocol includes a proposed plan for pooled analysis and has recently been adapted to measure vaccine effectiveness for the pandemic vaccine in 2009-10. Together with its twin publication ‘Protocols for cohort database studies to measure influenza vaccine effectiveness in the EU and EEA Member States’, this publication covers all methodological issues in the design and implementation of vaccine effectiveness studies, both for seasonal and the new A(H1N1)v influenza.

Out of the 31 EU and EFTA countries, 30 countries have reported a total of 14,659 confirmed cases, including 16 deaths. In the past 24 hours, 208 new cases and no fatal cases were confirmed from the EU and EFTA countries.

Since November 2008, transmission of dengue 4 virus has been reported in New Caledonia and several cases occurred on the Wallis and Futuna islands. The outbreak has also spread to neighbouring Pacific countries [1]. In French Polynesia, the dengue 4 outbreak has recently been expanding to the different islands.

This document describes machine-to-machine interface to The European Surveillance System (TESSy) and how to use it. It describes what the TESSy web service is, the requirements to use it, how to make requests and how to process the response. It is the main guideline for the implementation of the TESSy web service.

The purpose of this document is to describe the data transport format (XML) and the procedure for reporting infectious disease surveillance data to ECDC using TESSy. This document is targeted to data providers of TESSy that are responsible for data upload, i.e. mainly data managers in the national surveillance institutes of the EU Member States and the EEA countries.

This document describes machine-to-machine interface to The European Surveillance System (TESSy) and how to use it. It describes what the TESSy web service is, the requirements to use it, how to make requests and how to process the response. It is the main guideline for the implementation of the TESSy web service.

The purpose of this document is to describe the data transport format (XML) and the procedure for reporting infectious disease surveillance data to ECDC using TESSy. This document is targeted to data providers of TESSy that are responsible for data upload, i.e. mainly data managers in the national surveillance institutes of the EU Member States and the EEA countries.

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