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NATIONAL SURVEILLANCE OF SARS-COV-2 IN WASTEWATER- How does WBE contribute to the global epidemiologic assessment in Belgium? (September 2020 – 2024)
24h-representative samples at the inlet of 42 wastewater treatment plants twice a week. The present report presents the COVID-19 wastewater-based epidemiology surveillance between February 2021 and December 2023 and ...
Recovering radiotherapy services in England: Our plan for action
visibility in the public debate as chemotherapy and other cancer treatments. This briefing explores the main drivers of lengthening waiting times for radiotherapy and what action we need at a national and ...
Surveillance of Bloodstream Infections in Belgian Hospitals- Annual report 2023, Data up to and including 2022
that CLABSI incidence in 2022 remains at an increased level as compared to pre- COVID19 years. We therefore recommend a strong focus on the prevention of this type of HABSI, in the first place by freeing ...
Surveillance of Bloodstream Infections in Belgian Hospitals- Annual report 2023, Data up to and including 2022
HABSI origin in 2022, and that CLABSI incidence in 2022 remains at an increased level as compared to pre- COVID19 years. We therefore recommend a strong focus on the prevention of this type of HABSI, in ...
Interim analysis of COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness against hospitalisation and death using electronic health records in six European countries
period covered in this report is April 2022 to March 2023. The rVE of first, second and third booster doses was estimated and compared to the VE of complete primary vaccination received at least 24 weeks ...
Vaccine effectiveness of the second and third COVID-19 boosters in Belgium (administered during 2022 autumn campaign)
COVID-19 was rolled out to the adult population in Belgium, followed by the first booster campaign towards the end of the year. At the beginning of 2022, booster doses were recommended and offered to people ...
Virological surveillance report of the NRC influenza for season 2022-2023
metapneumovirus, but it continued to circulate in January 2023. Influenza viruses were responsible for a first epidemic wave at the end of December 2022 — so slightly earlier than during the seasons preceding the ...
Virological surveillance of influenza in Belgium, season 2019-2020
season of moderate intensity characterized by the co-circulation of A(H1N1)pdm09 and A(H3N2), with the predominance of A(H1N1). The epidemic threshold was crossed at week 4-2020 (January 13 to January 19, ...
Epidemiology of COVID-19 mortality in Belgium from wave 1 to wave 7 (March 2020 – 11 September 2022)
inhabitants), followed by Brussels-Capital Region (297 per 100,000 inhabitants) and Flanders (252 per 100,000 inhabitants). At provincial level (and Brussels-Capital Region), Hainaut had the highest overall ...
Monitoring HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis programmes in the EU/EEA
Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) recommended that EU / EEA countries consider integrating PrEP into their existing HIV-prevention packages for those most at risk of HIV infection. In 2021, ...