Eurosurveillance
Volume 20, Issue 11, 19 March 2015
http://www.eurosurveillance.org/Public/Articles/Archives.aspx?PublicationId=11678

Editorials
Progressing towards tuberculosis elimination in the European Union and European Economic Area
by MJ van der Werf, D Antoine

Rapid communications
Excess mortality among the elderly in European countries, December 2014 to February 2015
by K Mølbak, L Espenhain, J Nielsen, K Tersago, N Bossuyt, G Denissov, A Baburin, M Virtanen, A Fouillet, T Sideroglou, K Gkolfinopoulou, A Paldy, J Bobvos, L van Asten, M de Lange, B Nunes, S da Silva, A Larrauri, IL Gómez, A Tsoumanis, C Junker, H Green, R Pebody, J McMenamin, A Reynolds, A Mazick
Since December 2014 and up to February 2015, the weekly number of excess deaths from all-causes among individuals ≥ 65 years of age in 14 European countries have been significantly higher than in the four previous winter seasons. The rise in unspecified excess mortality coincides with increased proportion of influenza detection in the European influenza surveillance schemes with a main predominance of influenza A(H3N2) viruses seen throughout Europe in the current season, though cold snaps and other respiratory infections may also have had an effect.

Research articles
Impact of the BCG vaccination policy on tuberculous meningitis in children under 6 years in metropolitan France between 2000 and 2011
by T Van Bui, D Lévy-Bruhl, D Che, D Antoine, V Jarlier, J Robert