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.
EITaF COVID-19 News Highlights
EITaF COVID-19 News Highlights
EITaF Chairperson Prof. Eskild Petersen appears on BBC World News; comments on Russian COVID-19 Vaccine
WHO criteria for cessation of isolation of COVID-19 patients
COVID-19 News Highlights
COVID-19: Serology - where are we?
COVID-19 – Paediatric Inflammatory Syndrome and Stroke
COVID-19 - Latest updates
ESCMID Websymposium on COVID-19
SARS-CoV-2 update 3 April 2020
SARS-CoV-2 update and request for assistance
Coronavirus pandemic gaining pace in Europe and the U.S.A.
WHO declare the coronavirus is now a pandemic
SARS-CoV-2 - update 5th March 2020
SARS-CoV-2 – update 28th February 2020
SARS-CoV-2 In northern Italy
SARS-CoV-2 Update 21st February 2020
SARS-CoV-2 spread to Iran
2019-nCoV – update 14th February 2020
2019-nCoV – update 4th February 2020
nCoV Update
Update on the 2019-nCoV
2019-nCOV outbreak update
Case definition and infection prevention and control practices for 2019-novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) infections
2019-nCoV, Wuhan outbreak – 136 new cases
New Coronavirus patient in China and sequence data
Pneumonia outbreak in China
New cases of imported Lassa virus infection in Europe
Three cases of autochthonous Zika Virus infection in France
Polio outbreak in the Philippines
Livestock antibiotic resistance in low- and middle-income countries
Update of Ebola Virus Infections in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Support Clinical Care/Case management for Ebola Virus Diseases (EVD) response at WHO HQ Geneva
Find the WHO call document here.
WHO Sepsis: To support development of Clinical Management guidance and Global Sepsis report
Find the WHO call document here.
Measles Kills Thousands in Democratic Republic of Congo
Ebola virus disease: first case at Goma, DRC
Consultancies, WHO Emergency Programme
New Nipah case report in Kerala
Regional outbreak of New Delhi metallo-betalactamase-producing carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae, Italy, 2018–2019
Transgenic fungus rapidly kills Anopheles malaria mosquitoes
Remdesivir (GS-5734) protects African green monkeys from Nipah virus challenge
WHO adapts Ebola vaccination strategy in the DRC
Sanofi wins U.S. approval to sell dengue vaccine but with major restrictions
An ESCMID Course on Emerging Infections
Measles spread in the US: 2019
New tool for Genomic Sequencing of Bordetella pertussis
Global monitoring of antimicrobial resistance based on metagenomics analyses of urban sewage
Lassa Fever in Travellers
Largest study ever firmly shows no link between MMR vaccine and autism
Global disease outbreaks and El Niño
Zoonotic Bat Flu transmission
Deforestation and malaria
Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: advice for travellers against health risks
Measles still spreading in Europe
Ebola virus disease (EVD) in Democratic Republic of the Congo: an update
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
WHO and partners launch new country-led response to put stalled malaria control efforts back on track
Antibiotic Awareness Day: the burden of infections with antibiotic resistant bacteria
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
Monkeypox re-emergence in Nigeria, and two cases in UK from patients with a recent travel history from Nigeria.
New hybrid Schistomiasis established in the Cavu and Solenzara rivers, Corsica, France
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
OXA-48-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae ST392 in travelers hospitalised in Gran Canaria in 2018
Listeria monocytogenes outbreak in Europe
Papua New Guinea confirms poliovirus outbreak, launches response
One health: global animal health situation
Update on Ebola Virus disease
Carbapenem-resistant hypermucoviscous Klebsiella pneumoniae
Ebola Virus Disease in DRC: rapid risk assessment
EBOLA outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
Colistin resistance in bacteria from animals and humans
Human infection with a seasonal reassortant A (H1N2) influenza virus – Netherlands
Yellow fever in travellers to Brazil
Lassa fever in Nigeria
Antimicrobial resistance in bacteria from humans and animals
Lassa fever outbreak in Nigeria
Extensively Drug-Resistant Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhi outbreak in Pakistan
WHO priority list (R&D Blueprint)
CDC 2018 budget request
Yellow fever in São Paolo State
Salmonella agona infection and infant formula milk: a European outbreak
Poor coverage against current influenza B in the UK (and Europe?)
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