Hellenic Center of Disease Control and Prevention

The union of Greek hospital workers, POEDIN, has accused the government of misrepresenting the total number of flu cases and mortalities.

"The country's health authorities are not in a position to know the number of cases in our country. The number of flu cases and deaths given by the government is completely unreliable," POEDIN said.

The danger of measles spreading in Greece is real, the Health Ministry said Friday, pointing to a recent spike in infections in the last four months.

It said that some 100 cases of measles have been reported since June, a significant rise given that, before this period, the rate stood at roughly one infection per year.

The Hellenic Center of Disease Control and Prevention (KEELPNO) is urging vulnerable groups of the population, and mainly the elderly, to get vaccinated against potent flu strands expected this winter.

There is a “very low” risk of the deadly Ebola virus reaching Greece but experts here have been monitoring the outbreak, the Hellenic Center of Disease Control and Prevention (KEELPNO) said on Friday.

 After peak of 2012, KEELPNO data show decline in first half of 2014

After a spiralling outbreak of HIV in crisis-hit Greece that peaked in 2012, figures from the first half of the year indicate a drop in infections by the AIDS-causing virus among drug users.