Denmark | Final report released on soil contamination after 1968 nuke crash
Thule DK | The final report on the studies of soil contamination after the crash in 1968 in the Thule area has today been published. Risø DTU and the National Institute of Radiation Hygiene (SIS) under...
View ArticleGloucestershire | Minister announces 1.8M for Fire & Rescue Service
Gloucestershire | 2 March 2012 In a Parliamentary statement today, the Minister for Fire Bob Neil announced a one-off grant for Gloucestershire Fire and Rescue Service to replace and upgrade its...
View ArticleDenmark | Fox tapeworm status change
Jutland | 17 May 2012 The fox tapeworm, Echinococcus multilocularis, was recently detected by the National Veterinary Institute, Technical University of Denmark, in a fox from the southern part of...
View ArticleDenmark | No confirmed cases of novel coronavirus
The six widely discussed Danish patients, admitted to Odense and Hvidovre hospitals, have now been tested and found negative for Corona virus infection. Travelers returning from Qatar or Saudi Arabia,...
View ArticleDenmark | Increase in number of detected whooping cough cases in 2012
The first half of 2012 saw 408 cases of laboratory-confirmed whooping cough compared with 109 cases in the same period of 2011. A considerable part of the increase among older children and adults may...
View ArticleDenmark | VTEC O157 outbreak September-October 2012
Since mid-September, a total of 12 Danes have suffered from VTEC 0157 infection or renal failure (HUS). This is the first outbreak in Denmark with a foodborne HUS-associated VTEC type bacterium. The...
View ArticleDenmark | Sudden cardiac death: Relatives at risk for cardiovascular disease
Relatives of young people who have died suddenly from a heart-related problem are at greatly increased risk of developing cardiovascular disease (CVD) according to a Danish study published online in...
View ArticleDenmark | Increase in prophylactic rabies treatment after travelling abroad
In 2012, a total of 156 persons received prophylactic rabies treatment after being bitten by an animal during a journey abroad. This number has increased steadily over the past ten years. Most...
View ArticleDenmark | Infant botulism – an underdiagnosed condition?
From November 2011 to September 2012, a total of three cases of infant botulism were detected in Denmark – all three cases were diagnosed at Aarhus University Hospital, Skejby. Since 1995, only three...
View ArticleDenmark | Another two measles cases notified in February 2013
In February, another two measles cases were notified to the SSI. The year’s first case was notified in January, EPI-NEWS 5/13. The first case was a 37-year-old woman from Zealand, presumably infected...
View ArticleDenmark | Vaccination of children against Japanese encephalitis and meningitis
This week’s EPI-NEWS describes extended uses for vaccination of children against Japanese encephalitis and meningitis now approved by the authorities The age range for the registered Japanese...
View ArticleDenmark | Update on new coronavirus outbreak
By 6 March 2013, the WHO had reported a total of 13 confirmed cases of new coronavirus In September 2012, two patients, one from Saudi Arabia and another from Qatar, were diagnosed with a new...
View ArticleDenmark | Whooping cough increased substantially in 2012 compared with 2011
A total of 980 cases of whooping cough were detected in 2012, whereas 2011 saw 373 cases. EPI-NEWS no. 15 describes laboratory-confirmed whooping cough in Denmark in 2011 and 2012. Both years saw a...
View ArticleDenmark | Imported malaria remains at a low level
In 2012, a total of 68 cases of imported malaria were notified to the SSI from Danish laboratories. The number of notified malaria cases in 2012 was in line with the low level seen in the past few...
View ArticleDenmark | Increasing number of mumps cases
Physicians are currently encouraged to be attentive to the mumps diagnosis in children and young adults. In 2013, the SSI has so far recorded 21 laboratory-confirmed mumps cases. The cases are spread...
View ArticleDenmark | The Silkeborg area measles outbreak has ended
The outbreak counted a total of 14 cases Across Denmark a total of 17 measles cases have been detected in 2013. The outbreak in the Silkeborg area was caused by introduction of virus to Denmark...
View ArticleDenmark | Salmonella Enteritidis and Shigella sonnei in connection with...
Since June, Statens Serum Institut has recorded an increasing number of patients who have been infected with Salmonella Enteritidis during vacation travels to Turkey. Concurrently, an outbreak at a...
View ArticleDenmark | Info update – avian influenza in humans
Avian influenza (bird flu) is an infectious disease in birds caused by influenza A virus. Humans only rarely become infected with avian influenza and the majority of the detected cases of avian...
View ArticleDenmark | Increase in the number of travel-associated cases of legionnaires’...
Since 2003, a slightly increasing trend has been observed in the number of presumably travel-associated cases of legionnaires’ disease from 18 cases in 2003 to 25 in 2013 From 2003 to 2013, the SSI...
View ArticleDenmark | Four cases of tularaemia since May
Since May, four persons have had the rabbit fever bacteria detected following tick bites in Denmark. Rabbit fever (tularaemia) is occasionally seen in Denmark. The primary source of infection is game...
View Article
