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To access publisher's full text version of this article, please click on the hyperlink in Additional Links field or click on the hyperlink at the top of the page marked Files. This article is open access. ; Since September 2012, over 90 cases of respiratory disease caused by a novel coronavirus, now named Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERSCoV), have been reported in the Middle East and Europe. To ascertain the capabilities and testing experience of national reference laboratories across the World Health Organization (WHO) European Region to detect this virus, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the WHO Regional Office for Europe conducted a joint survey in November 2012 and a follow-up survey in June 2013. In 2013, 29 of 52 responding WHO European Region countries and 24 of 31 countries of the European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) had laboratory capabilities to detect and confirm MERS-CoV cases, compared with 22 of 46 and 18 of 30 countries, respectively, in 2012. By June 2013, more than 2,300 patients had been tested in 23 countries in the WHO European Region with nine laboratory-confirmed MERS-CoV cases. These data indicate that the Region has developed significant capability to detect this emerging virus in accordance with WHO and ECDC guidance. However, not all countries had developed capabilities, and the needs to do so should be addressed. This includes enhancing collaborations between countries to ensure diagnostic capabilities for surveillance of MERS-CoV infections across the European Region.

Im "Thema"-Beitrag des EG-Magazins werden neben einem Überblick über EG-Bildungs- und Ausbildungsprogramme folgende Aspekte beleuchtet: Rohstoff Bildung; Berufsausbildung für den Wettbewerb; neues Verständnis von Qualifizierung; Meisterbrief im Handwerk; FORCE: Betriebsinvestition; ARIOB/LINGUA-Anregungen für den Schulunterricht; Maastricht: Europäische Bildung - ein Bürgerrecht? (IAB)

Im "Thema"-Beitrag des EG-Magazins werden neben einem Überblick über EG-Bildungs- und Ausbildungsprogramme folgende Aspekte beleuchtet: Rohstoff Bildung; Berufsausbildung für den Wettbewerb; neues Verständnis von Qualifizierung; Meisterbrief im Handwerk; FORCE: Betriebsinvestition; ARIOB/LINGUA-Anregungen für den Schulunterricht; Maastricht: Europäische Bildung - ein Bürgerrecht? (IAB)

Dieser Reisebegleiter - durchaus im doppelten Wortsinn - richtet sich an Namibiareisende, die über die deutsche Kolonialperiode mehr erfahren wollen, als in gängigen Reiseführern, Reiseblogs oder in der in vielen Lodges angebotenen kolonialnostalgischen Erinnerungsliteratur zu lesen ist. Das Buch möchte zu einer kritischen Auseinandersetzung mit der bis in die Gegenwart wirksamen kolonialen Vergangenheit Deutschlands anregen. Der Reisebegleiter ist reich mit Bilddokumenten versehen. Historische und aktuelle Fotos vertiefen den Blick ebenso wie Originalzitate von Mathias Erzberger, August Bebel, Walther Rathenau oder Julius Bonn und anderes Quellenmaterial.

Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is an infectious viral disease that has (re-)emerged in the last decade in south-eastern Europe, and there is a risk for further geographical expansion to western Europe. Here we report the results of a survey covering 28 countries, conducted in 2012 among the member laboratories of the European Network for Diagnostics of 'Imported' Viral Diseases (ENIVD) to assess laboratory preparedness and response capacities for CCHF. The answers of 31 laboratories of the European region regarding CCHF case definition, training necessity, biosafety, quality assurance and diagnostic tests are presented. In addition, we identified the lack of a Regional Reference Expert Laboratory in or near endemic areas. Moreover, a comprehensive review of the biosafety level suitable to the reality of endemic areas is needed. These issues are challenges that should be addressed by European public health authorities. However, all respondent laboratories have suitable diagnostic capacities for the current situation. ; Sí