On 1 September, www.ssi.dk opened with a new design and a revised information architecture.
On 1 January 2010, general screening of pregnant women for HIV and syphilis was introduced as a supplement to the hepatitis B screening already in place.
In 2009, 356,383 blood units were screened and 35,887 candidate donors were examined.
The annual SSI report on suggested vaccinations for foreign travel has just been published. Read more in EPI-NEWS 26a+b/2010
Executive order on free influenza A (H1N1) vaccination for selected population groups is extended to 30 September 2010.
In May, an outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium was detected.
A reference group has revised and updated the SSI country-specific recommendations for malaria prophylaxis prior to travels abroad. The country-specific recommendations will be published in an upcoming edition of EPI-NEWS.
Read more in EPI-NEWS 25/2010
The number of notified malaria cases in 2009 was the lowest recorded since 1983 when the notification system acquired its present form. Consequently, the number of malaria cases imported to Denmark has been reduced by 75% in the past decade.
The influenza season 2009-2010 was atypical and characterised by the new pandemic influenza virus H1N1 which spread globally as from the spring of 2009. The new influenza A H1N1 virus is expected to dominate the next influenza season.
Brucellosis is a bacterial zoonosis caused by Brucella species.
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