Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Measles cases in Europe doubled to more than 127,000 in 2024. This was the highest number of cases since 1997.

FILE - A Federal Police officer speaks into his radio as he and a colleague track down a group of migrants who have illegally crossed the border from Poland into Germany, while on patrol in a forest ...

One of the world’s most contagious diseases is spreading in Europe. While measles infections have slowed in recent months, cases continue to crop up in parts of the continent. Last year was the worst ...

Switzerland has reported its first case of a contagious new strain of mpox, making it the latest European country to report an infection. The new strain has infected thousands of people in Central ...

The authorities said the risk of a rapid spread remained low because the new cases had had household contact with the first infected person. By Lynsey Chutel Reporting from London Two new cases of the ...

The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) monitors the situation after some countries reported a spike in Hepatitis E infections. In January 2024, 520 Hepatitis E virus (HEV) ...