The municipality of Amsterdam aims to make the city greener. To gain more insight into the benefits of green infrastructure, it commissioned the development of four different scenarios. For every scenario, and for the current situation, RIVM has calculated the value for the living environment of the city.

A number of European countries are currently seeing outbreaks of measles. Before the start of the summer season, RIVM has therefore updated its immunisation recommendation for measles.

The most recent measles epidemic and outbreak of Salmonella Thomson due to smoked salmon have cost 3.9 and 1.7 million euros, respectively.

On 26 October 2015, heel prick screening started for all newborns on St Eustatius and Saba.

In 2014, fewer outbreaks of food-borne infections and food poisoning occurred in relation to previous years.

The measles epidemic, the first case of which occurred in the Netherlands in May 2013, is coming to an end.