Open AccessOutbreak of serious illness related to contaminated heroin: European network helps improve surveillance of acute serious health events
Author(s) -
David J. Goldberg,
O N Gill,
Lucas Wiessing,
Jim McMenamin
Publication year - 2001
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 9999-1233
DOI - 10.2807/esw.05.41.01853-en
Subject(s) - european union , heroin , outbreak , public health , environmental health , addiction , medicine , medical emergency , business , drug , psychiatry , nursing , virology , international trade
During July 2001, new warnings were issued in Britain about the possibility that a batch of contaminated heroin was back on the market in England and Scotland. The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) in Lisbon, Portugal, alerted by the Public Health Laboratory Service (PHLS) for England and Wales, passed on these new warnings to the Reitox network of national focal points for immediate dissemination to professionals in contact with drug users throughout the European Union (1).