Flu season is coming for Europe. How bad could it be this year?
It’s difficult to predict just how severe the influenza season will be each year, but public health experts say it could be harsh in Europe due to lagging vaccination rates and early signals from far-flung countries such as Japan and Australia.
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World Health Assembly adopts historic Pandemic Agreement to make the world more equitable and safer from future pandemics
Agreement’s adoption follows three years of intensive negotiation launched due to gaps and inequities identified in national and global COVID-19 response.
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Recommendations for preparedness planning for public health threats
ECDC has produced key lessons learned, from the response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the multicountry Mpox outbreak in 2022–2023. They are organised according to the phases of the continuous preparedness cycle: Anticipation, Response and Recovery.
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Why health should be at the heart of building a more secure and competitive Europe
Five years ago this month, governments across Europe implemented unprecedented lockdowns in response to the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. It brought home to us the risks we face and the costs of complacency and a lack of preparedness.
What COVID-19 taught us about protecting kids in future pandemics
Five years after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, infectious disease experts continue to draw on its lessons for future disasters.
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ESWI Airborne: Intervention Strategies of Acute Respiratory Virus Infections
If you do not test, you will not know - a focus on COVID-19
A riveting episode from three unique perspectives on intervention strategies and the ongoing challenges posed by Sars-Cov-2, the virus behind one of the deadliest pandemics in recent history.
SARS-COV-2 re-infection and incidence of post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC) among essential workers in New York: a retrospective cohort study
After surviving Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), some people develop symptoms known as post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC). PASC is an emerging phenomenon yet to be fully understood, and identifying risk factors has been challenging.
COVID-19 pandemic interventions reshaped the global dispersal of seasonal influenza viruses
Despite the availability of updated seasonal influenza vaccines and treatments, annual influenza epidemics continue to cause millions of hospitalizations and substantial burden on health care systems.
