WHO Chemical Risk Assessment Workshop on new and emerging risks to human health from chemicals RIVM is hosting an international workshop on new and emerging risks from chemicals on 20 and 21 February 2019.
Kick off European Project VITAL: Vaccines and InfecTious diseases in the Ageing popuLation Recently, the EU-sponsored Vaccines and InfecTious diseases in the Ageing popuLation (VITAL) project was launched.
First patient infected by tick-borne encephalitis virus For the first time, a person in the Netherlands has fallen ill after a bite from a tick carrying the tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBE virus).
Chikungunya infections in the Caribbean region Since August 2014, there has been an increase in the number of Chikungunya patients in the Caribbean region. Travellers who visit the region can become infected there.