ECDC

The ECDC warns of a resurgence in measles cases across Europe in the first quarter of 2008. With concerns over Euro 2008 exacerbating the situation, the ECDC and WHO Europe call for higher vaccination rates.
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control has recently warned of increased numbers of measles cases in the first quarter of 2008: more than 1300 cases have been reported this year compared with 800 in the same quarter last year. This is a serious blow to the World Health (...)

*This article has been updated with information on the ECDC’s work programme for 2006.*
The EU’s new European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) was officially inaugurated in May 2005. Although the main bodies are now in place, the ECDC is not expected to address its full mandate before 2007.
Besides, in 2007, the European Commission (EC), the European Parliament (EP) and the Council of Ministers will review its mandate, which may cover non-communicable disease (such as for (...)

Mrs Zsuzsanna Jakab begun working as the first Director of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), in March 2005.
Objectives of the ECDC
Speaking at the European Parliament’s Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) Committee hearing on Monday 10 January 2005, she asserted very clearly 4 broad functions for the future ECDC :
Organising and coordinating the collaboration between EU institutions, Member States and other partners such as the World Health (...)

The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control launched in Stockholm in September 2004, is due to start work in May 2005.
The lauch was attended by senior Health Officials and Politicians from around Europe, North America and Asia and by EPHA Executive Committee member, Florence Bertelleti-Kemp.
Mr David Byrne, former Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection, gave a speech in which he said "SARS in 2003 showed us that, in today’s world, a disease outbreak can spread (...)

Following the official launch of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control on the 27 September the inaugural meeting of the ECDC’s Management Board was held on the 28 September.
At this meeting Dr. Marc Sprenger, Director-General of the National Institute for Health and Environment (RIVM) in the Netherlands, was appointed as Chairman of the ECDC’s Management Board with Dr. Meni Malliori, Assistant Professor in Psychiatry at the University of Athens and a former Member of the (...)