Infectious diseases

The European Health Emergency Response Authority (HERA) has issued recommendations to pharmaceutical companies to increase production of antibiotics used to treat respiratory infections ahead of winter in an effort to avoid a recurrence of shortages, especially of amoxicillin and amoxicillin/clavulanic acid.

With the intra-hospital spread of Covid-19 still a major problem, hospital doctors' representatives are insisting on the need to maintain the obligation for healthcare staff, patients and their attendants to wear masks within healthcare facilities.

In order to prevent any epidemics, a research study by a group of infectious diseases and public health experts has cautioned that the fight against mosquitoes in the earthquake-affected areas should be carried out extremely thoroughly, especially in high-risk areas for malaria, such as Adana and Mersin provinces.

The number of areas in Europe where the tiger mosquito has established a presence in the past decade has tripled as a result of climate change, according to experts who say Europe is rapidly heading towards a future where tropical diseases will affect its population.

New cases of both Covid-19 and influenza dropped over the week of June 12-18 in Greece, according to the weekly report by the National Public Health Organisation (EODY), published on Thursday.

Europe recorded almost as many locally caught cases of dengue in 2022 as it had over the previous 11 years, new figures from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) show.

Amid rising concerns over increasing measles cases in the country, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca has refuted recent media reports claiming deaths resulting from measles in the country, stating that the allegations are baseless and do not reflect the truth.

The sixth death of a child due to the streptococcus A (Strep A) infection has been recorded in Greece since the beginning of 2023, according to the National Public Health Organization (EODY) on Monday.

The 7-year-old child died in a hospital in Thessaloniki.

Despite the quarantine period of the COVID-19 pandemic ending a long time ago, an 82-year-old man living alone in a village house in the northern province of Trabzon has put himself under "voluntary quarantine," isolating himself without accepting visitors.

New cases of both SARS-CoV-2 and of influenza (flu) dropped slightly over the week of May 29-June 4, according to the weekly report by the National Public Health Organization (EODY), published on Thursday.