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

Update on situation with measles in Ukraine, 14 May 2012

[15.05.12]

According the Ministry of Health of Ukraine there were 9,333 cases of measles reported from the beginning of the year as of 14 May 2012.

EpiNews

World Malaria day, 25 April

[25.04.12]

The World health Organisation (WHO) reports a steady decrease of malaria cases in WHO European Region from 90 712 in 1995 to 102 in 2011. The aim of this day is to increase attention to the effective control measures against malaria. A steady decrease has been observed in imported cases of malaria in Norway too.