Outbreak

A measles outbreak that has infected more than 3,200 people in Greece since May last year seems to be on the wane, as the Center for Disease Control and Prevention has reported no new cases over the past week.

European officials said on Tuesday that the spike in the number of measles cases in Europe was due to epidemics in Romania, Italy, Germany and Greece.

According to the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control, more than 14,400 cases were reported by 30 countries last year - compared with about 4,600 cases the year before.

A total of four outbreaks of avian influenza have been found on the territory of the country - in the districts of Dobrich, Haskovo, Sliven and Yambol, the press agency of the Bulgarian Food Safety Agency said.

Health authorities in Greece have issued a public appeal to participate in vaccination and booster shot programs following a spike in measles cases in the country amid an outbreak in Europe.

The Greek Center for Disease Control and Prevention said on Friday that 166 cases had been reported in the country in 2016-17, with an increase in recent days.

Hungarian health authorities have quarantined a hospital in Mako, southeast Hungary, after declaring a measles epidemic, and warned on Thursday that the virus might have come from over the border in Romania, where there has been an outbreak in recent months.

Greek health authorities and facilities are preparing for the possibility of an Ebola outbreak in the country, with experts from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (KEELPNO) constantly updating their directives.

A United Nations medical worker infected with Ebola virus while working in Liberia has died in a hospital in Germany.

German medical authorities said on Tuesday the man - a doctor from Sudan whose name has not been released - died overnight in St. Georg hospital in the city ofLeipzigdespite "intensive medical procedures".

"There'll be no Ebola epidemic in Europe"

BELGRADE -- Serbian citizens "have no reason" to fear there will be an outbreak of Ebola as "control and prevention measures are being implemented to the greatest extent."

This is what head of the World Health Organization (WHO) Country Office in Serbia Miljana Grbić said on Monday....

Jovanka Kostovska, from Macedonia's Commission for Infective Diseases, said on Saturday that the results from the referent laboratory from Germany showed that the Briton Colin Jeffrey, whose death on Thursday triggered panic of Ebola outbreak, did not die of Ebola.

It is increasingly unlikely Ebola virus had caused the death of a British national in Macedonia, Macedonian news agency MIA reported on Saturday.