ESCMID Emerging Infections Task Force (EITaF): Outbreak news
Outbreak news from recent years (2018 onwards) is listed below.
For outbreak news from previous years, please select a year from the column on the left hand side.
Ebola virus disease: first case at Goma, DRC
Consultancies, WHO Emergency Programme
New Nipah case report in Kerala
An ESCMID Course on Emerging Infections
Measles spread in the US: 2019
Lassa Fever in Travellers
Global disease outbreaks and El Niño
Zoonotic Bat Flu transmission
Deforestation and malaria
Measles still spreading in Europe
A new filovirus discovered from bats in China
Marburg virus in fruit bats in Sierra Leone
December 18: International Migrants Day
Migrants, screening and vaccination. A guidance from ECDC
Acute flaccid myelitis cases in the USA
New Monkeypox case in Israel
Autochthonous transmission of Dengue in Spain
Monkeypox in Nigeria and UK update.
Ebola Virus in DRC Update
More Than 100 Measles Cases Reported in the USA in 2018
Autochthonous Crimean-Congo Haemorragic Fever in Spain.
Call for doctors interested in the control of the new Ebola outbreak in the Congo
The ESCMID Emerging Infections Task Force has been asked by the WHO to circulate this call for volunteers:
GOARN, the WHO Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network, is requesting qualified volunteers in specified fields for a minimum of 6 weeks to assist in the outbreak response to the newly confirmed Ebola outbreak.
If you are interested and available, please contact EITaF for additional information and please send us an updated CV, and dates of availability and we will forward your information to the WHO.
Be aware that the current outbreak is in an area of serious civil unrest with armed conflict which adds to the risks. The area has limited access to electricity, connectivity and running water. As per the GOARN request, accepted volunteers will receive travel and per diem.
The following areas of expertise may be sought to further strengthen the response over the next 3 months:
- Border health
- Case management
- Coordination
- Epidemiology and surveillance
- Health technical expertise
- Infection, prevention and control
- Laboratory
- Media and communications
- Operational research
- Risk communications
- Social anthropology
- WASH
Fluency in spoken and written French is a necessity for deployment to affected areas.
Eskild Petersen and Nicola Petrosillo
ESCMID Emerging Infections Task Force
New Cluster of Ebola Virus Disease in DRC
West Nile fever in Europe
Dengue outbreak in la Réunion
Listeria monocytogenes outbreak in Europe
One health: global animal health situation
Update on Ebola Virus disease
Yellow fever in travellers to Brazil
Lassa fever in Nigeria
Lassa fever outbreak in Nigeria
WHO priority list (R&D Blueprint)
CDC 2018 budget request
Yellow fever in São Paolo State
