Epidemiology

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An imported case of cholera has been confirmed in Bulgaria, marking the first such case in 103 years. The patient is a 23-year-old Indian national who had recently traveled to New Delhi, India, from August 13 to September 2, reports the press center of the Ministry of Health.

Türkiye faces an escalating risk of a surge in tropical diseases due to a significant rise in temperatures and disruptions in climatic patterns in the country, experts have told daily Hürriyet.

Climate change is poised to accelerate the transmission rates of infectious diseases, potentially triggering new outbreaks on a global scale.

Iva Hristova, the director of the National Center for Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, reassured that there is no danger of a West Nile fever epidemic in the country. Speaking on BNT, she emphasized that the infection is transmitted by a specific type of mosquito, which is common in Bulgaria.

Greek hospital admissions due to Covid-19 have been relatively high during the summer, with the National Public Health Organization reporting 817 in its latest weekly report.

Deputy Minister of Rural Development and Food Christos Kellas confirmed on Wednesday that the animals that spread the highly contagious infection plaguing sheep and goats in Greece came from Romania. 

Speaking on ERT radio, he said there are now "serious indications about the country and the way the disease" entered Greece.

In the past two years, there has been an alarming increase in cases of avian influenza, heightening concerns about possible transmission to humans, the EODC said in an update.

The number of people who are hospitalised and are diagnosed with coronavirus has almost doubled since the end of May, Gikas Magiorkinis, a professor of epidemiology and a member of the expert committee advising the Ministry of Health, said on Saturday.

The National System to combat COVID-19 and the Unified Information Portal, coronavirus.bg, will cease operations starting July 1. Information about COVID-19 cases in Bulgaria will now be published weekly in the epidemic situation reports of the Ministry of Health and the National Center for Infectious and Parasitic Diseases.

The number of admissions with infection reached 324