Arboviruses are conquering Europe
This autumn, cases of West Nile virus and Zika virus infections due to transmission by infected mosquitoes have occurred locally for the first time in Germany a…
Articles with tag „Viral infection“
A new German law on mandatory measles vaccination
Recently, a new law on measles vaccination has been passed in Germany. As of March 2020, all children in Germany from the age of one year must present proof of…
Case numbers of dengue fever increased in 2019
In spring 2019, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) called upon countries in Latin America and the Caribbean to prepare for possible outbreaks of dengue…
Drastic increase in infections with West Nile virus in Europe – first case of West Nile fever in a person in Germany
According to a current publication of the European Centre for Prevention and Control of Diseases (ECDC), this year’s total number of cases exceeds the total n…
New pathogens on the rise – first commercial antibody detection test for Mayaro virus diagnostics now available
Over the past years, a global spread of a multitude of new viruses and other pathogens has been observed, leading to previously unknown diseases. Lately, there…
Robert Koch Institute registered noticeably high numbers of hantavirus infections in 2017
In its recent epidemiological bulletin (no. 15) the German Robert Koch Institute reports about exceedingly high numbers of hantavirus infections in Germany. I…