Health Protection Scotland - E Weekly ReportCopyright (C) Health Protection ScotlandHealth Protection Scotlandhttp://www.hps.scot.nhs.uk/ewr/redirect.aspx?id=51465Further to Current note 45/4704 (at http://www.hps.scot.nhs.uk/ewr/redirect.aspx?id=49810), the current issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases includes a report from the Institut de Veille Sanitaire16 May 2012 12:00:00 GMThttp://www.hps.scot.nhs.uk/ewr/redirect.aspx?id=51405The World Health Organization (WHO) has recently published the 2012 edition of International Travel and Health. The publication can be viewed online and the hard copy should be available by mid-May 2010 May 2012 12:00:00 GMThttp://www.hps.scot.nhs.uk/ewr/redirect.aspx?id=51406A study by a team from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) published in the current edition of the Lancet Oncology, considers infectious agents classified as carcinogenic to humans 10 May 2012 12:00:00 GMThttp://www.hps.scot.nhs.uk/ewr/redirect.aspx?id=51326Coinciding with World Malaria Day on 25 April, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) published the Meeting report: Consultation on Plasmodium vivax transmission risk in Europe.02 May 2012 12:00:00 GMThttp://www.hps.scot.nhs.uk/ewr/redirect.aspx?id=51254To mark European Immunisation Week (EIW), 21-27 April, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) is gathering public health experts, behavioural specialists and social marketing pr25 Apr 2012 12:00:00 GMThttp://www.hps.scot.nhs.uk/ewr/redirect.aspx?id=50969Further to Current note 46/1201 (at http://www.hps.scot.nhs.uk/ewr/redirect.aspx?id=50896), in the UK, the Health Protection Agency (HPA) has released a Tuberculosis Update Newsletter (available at28 Mar 2012 12:00:00 GMThttp://www.hps.scot.nhs.uk/ewr/redirect.aspx?id=50970Further coinciding with World TB Day, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has issued guidance on the Management of contacts of MDR TB and XDR TB patients (at <A href="http://28 Mar 2012 12:00:00 GMThttp://www.hps.scot.nhs.uk/ewr/redirect.aspx?id=50896To mark World TB Day, 24 March 2012, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and WHO/Europe have launched their joint report, Tuberculosis surveillance and monitoring in Europe 221 Mar 2012 12:00:00 GMThttp://www.hps.scot.nhs.uk/ewr/redirect.aspx?id=50821On 12 March 2012, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) published its annual risk assessment on seasonal influenza 2011/2012 in Europe. ECDC points out that on this occasion th14 Mar 2012 12:00:00 GMThttp://www.hps.scot.nhs.uk/ewr/redirect.aspx?id=50823The TRAVAX team has recently completed systematic reviews of its recommendations on diphtheria and tetanus (October 2011 ? February 2012) which have resulted in changes to the ways in which both are i14 Mar 2012 12:00:00 GMThttp://www.hps.scot.nhs.uk/ewr/redirect.aspx?id=50824On 8 March the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) published their summary annual report on zoonoses, zoonotic agents and food-borne14 Mar 2012 12:00:00 GMThttp://www.hps.scot.nhs.uk/ewr/redirect.aspx?id=50825Following outbreaks of Plasmodium vivax infection in 2011 among Greek residents with no travel history (see Current note 45/3401 at http://www.hps.scot.nhs.uk/ewr/redirect.aspx?id=48844), two suppo14 Mar 2012 12:00:00 GMThttp://www.hps.scot.nhs.uk/ewr/redirect.aspx?id=50756In February 2012, a patient colonised with NDM-1 producing Klebsiella pneumoniae who had a recent history of long-term hospitalisation in India was identified for the first time in Scotland. The organ07 Mar 2012 12:00:00 GMThttp://www.hps.scot.nhs.uk/ewr/redirect.aspx?id=50758On the 29 February 2012 ECDC published its risk assessment on research taking place on laboratory-created A(H5N1) viruses transmissible between ferrets. The risk assessment summarises and explains the07 Mar 2012 12:00:00 GMThttp://www.hps.scot.nhs.uk/ewr/redirect.aspx?id=50759An estimated 910 000 lives were saved globally over six years by improving collaboration between TB and HIV services that protect people living with HIV from TB, according to global health impact figu07 Mar 2012 12:00:00 GMThttp://www.hps.scot.nhs.uk/ewr/redirect.aspx?id=50700The World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended changing two of the three strains in the 2012-13 season's influenza vaccine for the northern hemisphere, ending a period of stability in the vaccine29 Feb 2012 12:00:00 GMThttp://www.hps.scot.nhs.uk/ewr/redirect.aspx?id=50702On 24 February, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) published the operating procedures of the European Legionnaires' Disease Surveillance Network (ELDSNet). ELDSNet is the su29 Feb 2012 12:00:00 GMThttp://www.hps.scot.nhs.uk/ewr/redirect.aspx?id=50704The WHO Regional Office for Europe has carried out a baseline assessment of the magnitude of environmental health inequality in the European Region based on a core set of 14 inequality indicators. Th29 Feb 2012 12:00:00 GMThttp://www.hps.scot.nhs.uk/ewr/redirect.aspx?id=50635The Communicable Diseases Threat Report (CDTR) is one of the major outputs of epidemic intelligence at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). Prepared by the epidemic intellige22 Feb 2012 12:00:00 GMThttp://www.hps.scot.nhs.uk/ewr/redirect.aspx?id=50492On 6 February, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) issued a rapid risk assessment (at http://ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications/Publications/Forms/ECDC_DispForm.aspx?ID08 Feb 2012 12:00:00 GMT