Rapid risk assessment: Communicable disease risks associated with the movement of refugees in Europe during the winter season

Abstract:

​Recent weeks have seen reports of emerging outbreaks of communicable diseases affecting the refugee population and the scale of the current influx of refugees is inevitably putting pressure on public health systems in frontline receiving countries.

This risk assessment focuses on the threat to the refugee population from communicable diseases and assesses the situation in Europe, associated with the current movements of refugees across the region and in the context of their living conditions and the approaching winter, access to shelter, sanitation and health services.

• Primary Source

ECDC: Rapid risk assessment: Communicable disease risks associated with the movement of refugees in Europe during the winter season [Report, 2015] http://www.euractiv.com/sites/default/files/communicable_disease_risk_associated_with_the_movement_of_refugees.pdf

EurActiv, 08.01.16: EU countries advised to prepare for health threats from refugees http://www.euractiv.com/sections/health-consumers/eu-countries-advised-prepare-health-threats-refugees-320802

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