European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control

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European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
Solna Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden
59°22′22″N 18°1′2″E / 59.37278°N 18.01722°E / 59.37278; 18.01722
Annual budget€57 million EUR (2020)[1]
Centre executive
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Websiteecdc.europa.eu

The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) is an agency of the

Solna, Sweden
.

History and operations

Solna

As EU economic integration and open frontiers increased, cooperation on

H5N1 avian influenza in the EU's neighbourhood led to fears that the disease could adapt or mutate into a pandemic strain of human influenza.[citation needed
] The Centre moved to its current location at Gustav III:s Boulevard 40, 16973 Solna, Sweden, on 3 March 2018.

The ECDC manages key initiatives that focus on surveillance and response support, and public health capacity and communication,[citation needed] while the office of the Chief Scientist oversees the Microbiology Coordination Section and the Scientific Advice Coordination Section, along with seven Disease Programmes.[citation needed]

The Disease Programmes focus on specific disease groups:[citation needed]

Publications

ECDC publishes numerous scientific and technical reports covering various issues related to the prevention and control of

communicable diseases. Comprehensive reports from key technical and scientific meetings are also produced by the organization.[citation needed
]

Towards the end of every calendar year, ECDC publishes its Annual Epidemiological Report, which analyses surveillance data and infectious disease threats. As well as offering an overview of the public health situation in the European Union, the report offers an indication of where further public health action may be required in order to reduce the burden caused by communicable diseases.[citation needed]

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control is monitoring the

Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus.[4]

Other ECDC publications include disease-specific surveillance reports and threat reports, as well as analyses of trends in European public health.[citation needed]

Eurosurveillance

open-access (i.e. free) web-based journal that reports infectious disease issues from a European perspective. It publishes results from ECDC and the EU-funded surveillance networks, thereby providing the scientific community with timely access to new information. The journal is published every Thursday.[citation needed
]

Member states

In addition to the member states of the union, three members of the European Economic Area also participate in the ECDC network: Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway.[5]

The United Kingdom benefited from the ECDC during the Brexit transition period from February 1 to December 31, 2020.[citation needed]

COVID-19

During the COVID-19 pandemic, involved in the European Union response to the COVID-19 pandemic the ECDC published data related to COVID-19 such as number of people affected in the European Union.[citation needed]

See also

References

Citations

  1. ^ "ECDC financial documents". www.ecdc.europa.eu. Retrieved 2022-10-04.
  2. ^ "ECDC mission statement". www.ecdc.europa.eu. Archived from the original on 2009-11-04.
  3. ^ "About ECDC". European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (www.ecdc.europa.eu). Retrieved 2020-12-21.
  4. ^ "Rapid Risk Assessment: Severe respiratory disease associated with a novel coronavirus" (PDF). European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. 2013-02-19. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-02-19. Retrieved 2013-05-25.
  5. ^ "Competent Bodies". European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. Retrieved 2022-04-13.

Sources

External links

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