Welcome to the EpiNorth home-page!

The EpiNorth project aims to improve communicable disease surveillance, control and communication in the Nordic and Baltic countries and north-west regions of Russia.

On this site you can find information about epidemiological surveillance and outbreaks in various countries (EpiWatch), news about the events within the networks in cooperating countries (EpiNews), the online version of the bilingual epidemiological journal (EpiNorth Journal), data on notifiable infectious diseases from our region (EpiNorthData), national vaccination programmes in cooperating countries (EpiVax), educational and training material from our training courses (EpiTrain), links within our networks (EpiLinks) and contact informarion (About us). For the years 2007 - 2011, EpiNorth is funded by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), the Barents Health Programme and participating public health institutes. EpiNorths Secretariat is at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health.

We hope that information on the website will be useful for you . Please provide your feedback to us at epinorth@fhi.no.

EpiWatch

An increase of rubella in Poland

[10.05.13]

As of 30 April 2013, the National Institute of Public Health in Poland reported an increase in rubella cases, mainly among young males between 15-30 years of age.

Outbreak of measles in Lithuania

[10.05.13]

As of 9 May 2013 the Centre for Communicable Diseases and AIDS, Lithuania, reportes 7 confirmed cases of measles. Three of them are unvaccinated children from the same family.