An imported case of rabies was recently notified in Germany. At the beginning of May 2004, a 51 year old Bavarian man became ill six weeks after returning from a five month trip to India.
Malaria is not endemic in Germany, but it is one of the most commonly imported infectious diseases. The numbers of imported cases increased from 1994 to 1996; in 1997 according to preliminary data there were a total of 994 cases. In 1996, 1021 cases of ma
Numbers of cases of gonorrhoea and, to a lesser extent, of syphilis in Germany may have been drastically underreported in the past, according to a report in Germany’s national surveillance bulletin (1). It is hoped that a new notification system for syphilis, introduced on 1 January 2001, and a sentinel surveillance system for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) soon to be implemented will provide better quality data to estimate the incidence of STIs and find out whether they reflect the situation in other European countries (2-7).
From the beginning of 2001 to mid-2002, 2783 cases of syphilis were notified to the Robert Koch-Institut (RKI) in Germany (1). Of these notifications, 1681 were for cases diagnosed in 2001, and 1102 were for cases diagnosed so far in the first half of 2002 (a 50% increase on the first half of 2001). The annual number of syphilis notifications in Germany between 1995 and 2000 was between 1120 and 1150. The recent rise in reported cases follows a major change in the German syphilis notification system, from physician- to laboratory-based reporting, which was introduced at the beginning of 2001.
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