Eurosurveillance
Volume 19, Issue 13, 03 April 2014
http://www.eurosurveillance.org/Public/Articles/Archives.aspx?PublicationId=11678
Editorials
Integrated surveillance for prevention and control of emerging vector-borne diseases in Europe
J C Semenza 1, H Zeller1
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Stockholm, Sweden
World Health Day, celebrated on 7 April, marks the anniversary of the founding of the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1948. This year, vector-borne diseases which are transmitted mainly by bites of vectors such as mosquitoes, ticks and sandflies are highlighted as a global public health priority. This issue of Eurosurveillance focuses on vector-borne diseases and their impact on public health in Europe and other parts of the world such as the recent outbreaks of Chikungunya fever in the Caribbean and Zika virus fever in the Pacific [1-6].