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Poster: Influenza during the COVID-19 pandemic - protect yourself and others from COVID-19 during influenza vaccination
How do I protect myself and others from COVID-19 during influenza vaccination?
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Poster: Influenza during the COVID-19 pandemic - why it's important to get vaccinated against influenza
Why is it important to get vaccinated against influenza during the COVID-19 pandemic?
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Flu Awareness Week, 5-9 October 2020
The Flu Awareness Week is marked across the WHO European Region every year in October. It aims to raise awareness of the importance of vaccination for people’s health and well-being and to increase the uptake of seasonal influenza vaccination of people with underlying risk factors.
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Looking at newer enhanced seasonal influenza vaccines: a systematic review of efficacy, effectiveness and safety
Based on a systematic literature review, ECDC assessed the efficacy, effectiveness and safety of newer and enhanced inactivated seasonal influenza (flu) vaccines among those 18 years or older. These assessed are MF59® adjuvanted, cell-based, high-dose, and recombinant haemagglutinin influenza vaccines.
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Communicable disease threats report, 27 September - 3 October 2020, week 40
This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 27 September - 3 October 2020 and includes updates on COVID-19 associated with SARS-CoV-2, West Nile virus, Ebola virus disease - eleventh outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, avian influenza and cholera.
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Systematic review of the efficacy, effectiveness and safety of newer and enhanced seasonal influenza vaccines
Overall the evidence base for the efficacy and effectiveness of newer and enhanced influenza vaccines appears limited at present, with a number of potentially relevant studies identified as ongoing.
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Avian influenza overview May – August 2020
Between 16 May and 15 August 2020, seven highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) A(H5N8) virus outbreaks were reported in Europe in poultry, with one outbreak reported in Bulgaria (n=1) and six in Hungary (n=6) and one low pathogenic avian influenza (LPAI) A(H5N3) virus outbreak was reported in poultry in Italy.
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Avian influenza: EU on alert for new outbreaks
EU states are being urged to step up surveillance and biosecurity measures to guard against possible new outbreaks of avian influenza this year.
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Haemophilus influenzae - Annual Epidemiological Report for 2018
In 2018, 3 982 confirmed cases of invasive Haemophilus influenzae disease were reported in the EU/EEA.
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Influenza virus characterisation - Summary Europe, July 2020
ECDC’s influenza virus characterisation reports are published periodically and give an overview of circulating influenza viruses. They provide details on the current vaccine strains, summarise the development of the viruses since the last report, and closely follow the main developments for the ongoing influenza season. Virus characterisation reports are primarily intended for influenza virologists and epidemiologists.