Import of norovirus infections in the Netherlands and Ireland following pilgrimages to Lourdes, 2008 – preliminary report

Author:

Verhoef L1,Duizer E1,Vennema H1,Siebenga J1,Swaan C1,Isken L1,Koopmans M1,Balay K2,Pothier P2,McKeown P3,van Dijk G4,Capdepon P5,Delmas G6

Affiliation:

1. National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Center for Infectious Disease Control, Bilthoven, the Netherlands

2. National Reference Centre for Enteric Viruses, Dijon, France

3. Health Protection Surveillance Centre, Dublin, Ireland

4. Municipal Health Service West-Brabant, Breda, the Netherlands

5. Direction Départementale des Affaires Sanitaires et Sociales (District Health and Social Services, DDASS) des Haute Pyrénées, France

6. Institut de Veille Sanitaire (French Institute for Public Health Surveillance, INVS), Saint Maurice, France

Abstract

Between mid-September and 19 October 2008, nine clusters of norovirus infection involving around 90 primary cases and over a hundred secondary cases were identified in patients from the Netherlands, Ireland, Italy and France, linked to pilgrimage to Lourdes, France.

Publisher

European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC)

Subject

Virology,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health,Epidemiology

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