Abstract
Writing last year in Science (336:419, 2012), Elisabet Lindgren of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, with colleagues at other Swedish centers, highlighted recent outbreaks of several tropical infections around continental Europe. We have had chikungunya fever in Italy, dengue fever in France and Croatia, and West Nile fever in Romania and Greece. “These events support the notion that Europe is a hot spot for emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases,” said the authors. A further pointer has been the appearance of Schmallenbeg virus, a novel orthobunyavirus, among cattle in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands (M. Beer et al., Epidemiol. Infect. 141:1, 2013).
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