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Protection against rotavirus included in National Immunisation Programme from 2024
From 2024, rotavirus vaccination will be included in the National Immunisation Programme (NIP). Rotavirus can cause severe diarrhoea and dehydration in babies, in some cases requiring them to be hospitalised.
Air quality in 2022 slightly worse than in 2021, but complies with EU limit values almost everywhere
In 2022, the air quality at ground level in the Netherlands complied with the EU limit values for nitrogen dioxide and particulate matter almost everywhere. However, these substances were found in slightly higher concentrations than during the COVID-19 pandemic years 2020 and 2021.
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- Environmental monitoring in the vicinity of the Borssele nuclear power plant. Results in 2022
- An overview of the available data on the reproductive toxicity of molybdenum and its compounds
- NSL 2023 monitoring report. State of affairs of National Air Quality Cooperative Programme (NSL)
- Safe and sustainable recycling: pyrolysis of car tyres
- Evaluation of source tracing and contact investigation for tuberculosis patients in the Netherlands 2017–2021
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- State of Infectious Diseases in the Netherlands, 2022