Center for Disease Control

New Democracy Vice President Adonis Georgiadis (photo) and conservative MP Costas Tzavaras are taking lead action against Deputy Health Minister Pavlos Polakis and ministry aides in connection to a list of appointees at the Hellenic Center for Disease Control and Prevention, KEELPNO.

Alternate Health Minister Pavlos Polakis asked the members of the board of directors of the Hellenic Center for Disease Control and Prevention (KEELPNO) to resign late on Wednesday. The alternate minister took to his Facebook account to announce the appointment of a new boad in the near future.

The Hellenic Center for Disease Control and Prevention (KEEPLNO) confirmed that a Dutch tourist is currently being treated at a large private hospital in Athens after being infected by cholera. KEELPNO President Thanasis Giannopoulos stated that doctors fear the possibility of a cholera outbreak.

Laboratory inspections on a white powder found in an envelope that was mailed to the capital?s Evelpidon court complex on Wednesday, prompting a security alert, did not test positive for anthrax or other substances associated with bioterrorism, according to Athanasios Tsakris, a microbiologist at Athens Medical School.

Greek mayors on Thursday promised to support the government?s emergency plan for dealing with an increased influx of immigrants as long as their contribution is funded by the state.

As some 300 more undocumented migrants landed on Greek shores in less than 24 hours, Alternate Minister for Immigration Policy Tasia Christodoulopoulou on Friday met with Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis in a bid to find shelter for the increasing inflows.

The number of people in Greece who have died this flu season after contracting the virus has risen to 45, health officials said on Friday.

The number of Greeks who have died from flu this winter has reached 7, the AMNA news agency reported on Thursday.

According to figures released by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (KEELPNO), 12 patients were admitted to intensive care units in the last few days, raising the number of people being treated at intensive care units to 22.

Health authorities in Greece have called on citizens to be particularly scrupulous with personal hygiene amid a spike in the number of flu cases which has led to five deaths this season, with another 10 people in intensive-care units.

Health authorities in Greece are on standby for a sharp rise in the number of flu cases, believing that the current cold snap following a mild winter has created the ideal conditions for the virus to spread.