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Migrants at ‘low risk’ of passing disease to host country residents: WHO report

European residents are at “low risk” of contracting communicable diseases such as TB or HIV from migrants, although the latter group is more likely to fall victim to such illnesses, according to a World Health Organisation report. “Infections in those migrating have minimal public health implications for most host populations in the WHO European Region,” the […]

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Rethinking European health care

The European Health Parliament is a platform of 55 young professionals from across Europe, which aims to deliver high-level policy-oriented recommendations to positively influence and change the future of healthcare in Europe. It has just published ‘Rethinking European Healthcare: recommendations by the next generation’. It covers proposals on: antimicrobial resistance climate change and health digital

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TB elimination at stake in Europe

New data released by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and WHO/Europe show that an estimated 340,000 Europeans had tuberculosis (TB) in 2014, corresponding to a rate of 37 cases per 100,000 people. Although new TB cases decreased by 4.3{ddf8d179d1bf712bb2a88ff2ad95ebdf63eaa5463c845d2f093b25848387ba96} on average between 2010 and 2014, high rates of multidrug-resistant (MDR) TB

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