Influenza

In the period 22 July - 29 September 2016, teams from the Institute of Public Health (IPH)  composed by one epidemiologist and one person from the lab for virology and molecular diagnosis,  performed  sentinel site visits to 14 sentinel ILI sites and 3 sentinel SARI sites. For the visit, a unique form to conduct sentinel site visit was used and reports are prepared for every sentinel site. The number of staff included in the surveillance is from 2 to 4 and it is always a team of one medical doctor and one nurse. All of them have good evidence and can find required data at any time.

On the 14^th and 15^th of July 2016, in the framework of the project“Surveillance and Response to Avian and Pandemic Influenza”, Grant No. 5U51IP000841-03, funded by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a Subnational meeting was held in Bulgaria between public health physicians and veterinary experts involved in the sentinel hospital based surveillance system on Flu

In the framework of the project “Surveillance And Response To Avian And Pandemic Influenza”, Grant Nr. 5U51IP000841-03, funded by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), on 27.07.2016 at the Institute of Public Health (IPH) of Macedonia was held the coordination meeting between medical and vet experts.

On 21^st June 2016 Institute of Public Health of Serbia ‘Dr Milan Jovanovic Batut’ organized a workshop aiming to discuss influenza surveillance i.e. to improve hospital sentinel surveillance of the severe acute respiratory infection.

This activity was held in the framework of the project “Surveillance and Response to Avian and Pandemic Influenza”, Grant Nr. 5U51IP000841-03, funded by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).