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{"title":"Co-circulation of monkeypox virus subclades Ia and Ib in Kinshasa Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, July to August 2024.","authors":"Tony Wawina-Bokalanga, Prince Akil-Bandali, Eddy Kinganda-Lusamaki, Emmanuel Lokilo, Daan Jansen, Adrienne Amuri-Aziza, Jean-Claude Makangara-Cigolo, Elisabeth Pukuta-Simbu, Rilia Ola-Mpumbe, Mamito Muyembe, Cris Kacita, Princesse Paku-Tshambu, Pedro Hlf Dantas, Olivier Tshiani-Mbaya, Gradi Luakanda, Antoine Nkuba-Ndaye, Meris Matondo, Emmanuel Hasivirwe Vakaniaki, Sofonias Tessema, Nicaise Ndembi, Áine O'Toole, Tessa De Block, Christian Ngandu, Nicole A Hoff, Nicola Low, Lorenzo Subissi, Sydney Merritt, Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum, Laurens Liesenborghs, Martine Peeters, Eric Delaporte, Jason Kindrachuk, Anne W Rimoin, Steve Ahuka-Mundeke, Andrew Rambaut, Dieudonné Mwamba, Koen Vercauteren, Placide Mbala-Kingebeni","doi":"10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2024.29.38.2400592","DOIUrl":"10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2024.29.38.2400592","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Between January and August 2024, mpox cases have been reported in nearly all provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Monkeypox virus genome sequences were obtained from 11 mpox cases' samples, collected in July-August 2024 in several health zones of Kinshasa. Characterisation of the sequences showed subclades Ia and Ib co-circulating in the Limete health zone, while phylogenetic analyses suggested multiple introductions of the two subclades in Kinshasa. This illustrates the growing complexity of Clade I mpox outbreaks in DRC.</p>","PeriodicalId":12161,"journal":{"name":"Eurosurveillance","volume":"29 38","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11484285/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142282648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Author's response: Oropouche virus risk for European travellers to Cuba: an emerging public health concern.","authors":"Concetta Castilletti, Federico Giovanni Gobbi","doi":"10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2024.29.38.2400607","DOIUrl":"10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2024.29.38.2400607","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12161,"journal":{"name":"Eurosurveillance","volume":"29 38","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11484287/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142282647","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Letter to the editor: Oropouche virus risk for European travellers to Cuba: an emerging public health concern.","authors":"Marta Giovanetti, Francesco Branda, Fabio Scarpa, Massimo Ciccozzi, Giancarlo Ceccarelli","doi":"10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2024.29.38.2400599","DOIUrl":"10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2024.29.38.2400599","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12161,"journal":{"name":"Eurosurveillance","volume":"29 38","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11484286/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142282650","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The potential of federated learning for public health purposes: a qualitative analysis of GDPR compliance, Europe, 2021.","authors":"Natalie Lieftink, Carolina Dos S Ribeiro, Mark Kroon, George B Haringhuizen, Albert Wong, Linda Hm van de Burgwal","doi":"10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2024.29.38.2300695","DOIUrl":"10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2024.29.38.2300695","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>BackgroundThe wide application of machine learning (ML) holds great potential to improve public health by supporting data analysis informing policy and practice. Its application, however, is often hampered by data fragmentation across organisations and strict regulation by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Federated learning (FL), as a decentralised approach to ML, has received considerable interest as a means to overcome the fragmentation of data, but it is yet unclear to which extent this approach complies with the GDPR.AimOur aim was to understand the potential data protection implications of the use of federated learning for public health purposes.MethodsBuilding upon semi-structured interviews (n = 14) and a panel discussion (n = 5) with key opinion leaders in Europe, including both FL and GDPR experts, we explored how GDPR principles would apply to the implementation of FL within public health.ResultsWhereas this study found that FL offers substantial benefits such as data minimisation, storage limitation and effective mitigation of many of the privacy risks of sharing personal data, it also identified various challenges. These challenges mostly relate to the increased difficulty of checking data at the source and the limited understanding of potential adverse outcomes of the technology.ConclusionSince FL is still in its early phase and under rapid development, it is expected that knowledge on its impracticalities will increase rapidly, potentially addressing remaining challenges. In the meantime, this study reflects on the potential of FL to align with data protection objectives and offers guidance on GDPR compliance.</p>","PeriodicalId":12161,"journal":{"name":"Eurosurveillance","volume":"29 38","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11484284/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142282653","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Job vacancies at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control","authors":"Eurosurveillance editorial team","doi":"10.2807/1560-7917.es.2024.29.34.240822v","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.es.2024.29.34.240822v","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract not available","PeriodicalId":12161,"journal":{"name":"Eurosurveillance","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":19.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142211074","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Post-vaccination, post-infection and hybrid immunity against severe cases of COVID-19 and long COVID after infection with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron subvariants, Czechia, December 2021 to August 2023.","authors":"Martin Šmíd, Tamara Barusová, Jiří Jarkovský, Ondřej Májek, Tomáš Pavlík, Lenka Přibylová, Josefína Weinerová, Milan Zajíček, Jan Trnka","doi":"10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2024.29.35.2300690","DOIUrl":"10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2024.29.35.2300690","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>BackgroundCOVID-19 remains a major infectious disease with substantial implications for individual and public health including the risk of a post-infection syndrome, long COVID. The continuous changes in dominant variants of SARS-CoV-2 necessitate a careful study of the effect of preventative strategies.AimWe aimed to estimate the effectiveness of post-vaccination, post-infection and hybrid immunity against severe cases requiring oxygen support caused by infections with SARS-CoV-2 variants BA1/2 and BA4/5+, and against long COVID in the infected population and their changes over time.MethodsWe used a Cox regression analysis with time-varying covariates and calendar time and logistic regression applied to national-level data from Czechia from December 2021 until August 2023.ResultsRecently boosted vaccination, post-infection and hybrid immunity provide significant protection against a severe course of COVID-19, while unboosted vaccination more than 10 months ago has a negligible protective effect. The post-vaccination immunity against the BA1/2 or BA4/5+ variants, especially based on the original vaccine types, appears to wane rapidly compared with post-infection and hybrid immunity. Once infected, however, previous immunity plays only a small protective role against long COVID.ConclusionVaccination remains an effective preventative measure against a severe course of COVID-19 but its effectiveness wanes over time thus highlighting the importance of booster doses. Once infected, vaccines may have a small protective effect against the development of long COVID.</p>","PeriodicalId":12161,"journal":{"name":"Eurosurveillance","volume":"29 35","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11484334/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142105864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Incidence of laboratory-confirmed influenza and RSV and associated presenteeism and absenteeism among healthcare personnel, Israel, influenza seasons 2016 to 2019","authors":"Eduardo Azziz-Baumgartner, Avital Hirsch, Young M Yoo, Alon Peretz, David Greenberg, Yonat Shemer Avni, Aharona Glatman-Freedman, Michal Mandelboim, Adam MacNeil, Emily T Martin, Gabriella Newes-Adeyi, Mark Thompson, Arnold S Monto, Ran D Balicer, Min Z Levine, Mark A Katz","doi":"10.2807/1560-7917.es.2024.29.31.2300580","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.es.2024.29.31.2300580","url":null,"abstract":"<span>Background</span>\u0000<p>Healthcare personnel (HCP) are at high risk for respiratory infections through occupational exposure to respiratory viruses.</p>\u0000<span>Aim</span>\u0000<p>We used data from a prospective influenza vaccine effectiveness study in HCP to quantify the incidence of acute respiratory infections (ARI) and their associated presenteeism and absenteeism.</p>\u0000<span>Methods</span>\u0000<p>At the start and end of each season, HCP at two Israeli hospitals provided serum to screen for antibodies to influenza virus using the haemagglutination inhibition assay. During the season, active monitoring for the development of ARI symptoms was conducted twice a week by RT-PCR testing of nasal swabs for influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). Workplace presenteeism and absenteeism were documented. We calculated incidences of influenza- and RSV-associated ARI and applied sampling weights to make estimates representative of the source population.</p>\u0000<span>Results</span>\u0000<p>The median age of 2,505 participating HCP was 41 years, and 70% were female. Incidence was 9.1 per 100 person-seasons (95% CI: 5.8–14.2) for RT-PCR-confirmed influenza and 2.5 per 100 person-seasons (95% CI: 0.9–7.1) for RSV illness. Each season, 18–23% of unvaccinated and influenza-negative HCP seroconverted. The incidence of seroconversion or RT-PCR-confirmed influenza was 27.5 per 100 person-seasons (95% CI: 17.8–42.5). Work during illness occurred in 92% (95% CI: 91–93) of ARI episodes, absence from work in 38% (95% CI: 36–40).</p>\u0000<span>Conclusion</span>\u0000<p>Influenza virus and RSV infections and associated presenteeism and absenteeism were common among HCP. Improving vaccination uptake among HCP, infection control, and encouraging sick HCP to stay home are important strategies to reduce ARI incidence and decrease the risk of in-hospital transmission.</p>","PeriodicalId":12161,"journal":{"name":"Eurosurveillance","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":19.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141871374","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A survey of the representativeness and usefulness of wastewater-based surveillance systems in 10 countries across Europe in 2023.","authors":"Guido Benedetti, Lene Wulff Krogsgaard, Sabine Maritschnik, Hans Peter Stüger, Veronik Hutse, Raphael Janssens, Soile Blomqvist, Tarja Pitkänen, Anastasia Koutsolioutsou, Eszter Róka, Marta Vargha, Giuseppina La Rosa, Elisabetta Suffredini, Henry-Michel Cauchie, Leslie Ogorzaly, Rudolf Fhj van der Beek, Willemijn J Lodder, Elisabeth Henie Madslien, Jose Antonio Baz Lomba, Steen Ethelberg","doi":"10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2024.29.33.2400096","DOIUrl":"10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2024.29.33.2400096","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Wastewater-based surveillance (WBS) has become a widespread method to monitor transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and other human pathogens in Europe. We conducted a survey about WBS systems' objectives, approaches, representativeness and usefulness in 10 invited European countries in 2023, i.e. Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Norway. All countries completed the study questionnaire about their SARS-CoV-2 WBS systems, and shared information about WBS of other pathogens as deemed relevant. SARS-CoV-2 WBS systems primarily monitored national and subnational trends (population coverage: 25-99%), and a majority (8/10) also tracked variant distribution. Nine of 10 countries reported that their SARS-CoV-2 WBS systems were representative of their population and all countries remarked that the findings were valuable for public health decision-making. Results were shared with relevant public health authorities and published via dedicated websites and/or dashboards. WBS systems of other pathogens were mostly in the early stages, with some countries implementing pilots. Notable exceptions were the well-established poliovirus surveillance systems in Finland, Italy and the Netherlands. This study brings understanding the diverse landscape of WBS in Europe, offering insights for future developments and collaborations. Furthermore, it highlights the need for further integration of WBS into other European surveillance systems.</p>","PeriodicalId":12161,"journal":{"name":"Eurosurveillance","volume":"29 33","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11328501/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141987720","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Real-time PCR assay to detect the novel Clade Ib monkeypox virus, September 2023 to May 2024.","authors":"Leonard Schuele, Leandre Murhula Masirika, Jean Claude Udahemuka, Freddy Belesi Siangoli, Justin Bengehya Mbiribindi, Pacifique Ndishimye, Frank M Aarestrup, Marion Koopmans, Bas B Oude Munnink, Richard Molenkamp","doi":"10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2024.29.32.2400486","DOIUrl":"10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2024.29.32.2400486","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Monkeypox virus (MPXV) is an emerging zoonotic pathogen with complex epidemiology necessitating rapid diagnosis and distinguishing between clades and subclades. The emerging Clade Ib lacks the genomic region used in the Clade I-specific assay from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. We report an MPXV real-time PCR to specifically detect Clade Ib. The assay demonstrated proficient sensitivity and specificity in 92 samples and can be included along other TaqMan-based assays to detect MPXV and distinguish between clades and subclades.</p>","PeriodicalId":12161,"journal":{"name":"Eurosurveillance","volume":"29 32","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11312019/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141906314","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Note from the editors: WHO declares mpox outbreak a public health emergency of international concern.","authors":"","doi":"10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2024.29.33.240815v","DOIUrl":"10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2024.29.33.240815v","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12161,"journal":{"name":"Eurosurveillance","volume":"29 33","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11328502/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141987744","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}