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Jun 18, 2025 · In 2025, ECDC celebrates 20 years of strengthening Europe’s defences against infectious diseases and protecting the health of over 500 million people across the EU. Protect …
About ECDC - European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) is a public health agency of the European Union (EU), operational since 2005. ECDC’s ambition is to protect over 500 million …
Surveillance and updates on COVID-19
Variants of concern ECDC regularly assesses new evidence on variants detected through epidemic intelligence, rules-based genomic variant screening or other scientific sources.
COVID-19 - European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern as of 27 June 2025 ECDC regularly assesses new evidence on variants detected through epidemic intelligence, rules-based genomic variant screening or …
Publications and data
ECDC publishes outputs relevant to preparedness, prevention and control of communicable diseases. The centre provides regular analysis of infectious disease data and trends, …
COVID-19 vaccination
May 24, 2023 · In September 2023, ECDC updated its COVID-19 vaccination coverage data analysis process, in view of the evolving timing and objective of the season vaccination …
Data, dashboards and databases
All data on topics in the area of infectious diseases collected by ECDC are made accessible in various formats, such as interactive databases and dashboards, downloadable datasets and …
SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern as of 27 June 2025
Jun 30, 2025 · ECDC utilises three categories of variant classification to communicate increasing levels of concern about a new or emerging SARS-CoV-2 variant: variant under monitoring …
Mpox - European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
The mpox (monkeypox) virus is transmitted to humans through a bite or direct contact with an infected animal’s blood, body fluids or cutaneous/mucosal lesions.
Infectious disease topics
Alphabetical list of infectious diseases, which links to overview pages with all related content.