Open AccessInterim European surveillance case definition for anthrax
Author(s) -
A Nicoll
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
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Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 9999-1233
DOI - 10.2807/esw.05.44.02045-en
Subject(s) - interim , european union , notifiable disease , interim analysis , medicine , public health surveillance , public health , political science , medical emergency , environmental health , business , law , clinical trial , pathology , economic policy
The heads of national surveillance and public health centres, at a meeting in Luxembourg on 30 October 2001, agreed an interim surveillance case definition for anthrax for Europe (box). While anthrax is not formally notifiable internationally at the present time (click here), it was agreed that ascertainment of a single case of confirmed or probable human anthrax should be the subject of an “early warning” within the European Union under the provision of Decision no. 2119/98/EC of 24 September 1998 (Network Decision).