ESCMID Emerging Infections Task Force (EITaF): Outbreak news

Outbreak news items from 2021 are listed below.

For outbreak news from previous years, please select a year from the column on the right hand side.

COVID-19 booster immunisations and COVID-19 in children

 

 

The first Ebola outbreak in Côte d’Ivoire in more than 25 years

 

 

Marburg virus disease first seen in West Africa

 

 

Vaccines provide only 30% protection against the delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 after one shot

 

 

COVID-19 in children: should we vaccinate?

 

 

The Epsilon (B.1.427/B.1.429) variant of SARS-CoV-2: a new matter of concern or just one to watch?

 

 

SARS-CoV-2: News on the delta variant

 

 

VITT - Vaccine-Induced immune Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia – an update

 

 

VITT - vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopaenia

 

 

BBC World News Interview: EITaF's Eskild Petersen on COVID-19 Vaccination

 

 

ECRAID (European Clinical Research Alliance on Infectious Diseases)-Base launches European Clinical Research Alliance

 

 

Update on AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccine

 

 

New variants of SARS-CoV-2: risk up to high/very high

 

 

The emergence and rapid spread of a new SARS-CoV-2 variant, designated as 501Y.V2, in South Africa