Research and analysis

High consequence infectious diseases: monthly summaries

These reports detail high consequence infectious disease (HCID) events that are detected during PHE's epidemic intelligence activities.

• From: Public Health England
• Published: 16 February 2018
• Last updated: 1 December 2020, see all updates

Documents

Global high consequence infectious disease events: summary September to October 2020

Ref: PHE publications gateway number: GW-1733 HTML

Global high consequence infectious disease events: summary August 2020

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Global high consequence infectious disease events: summary July 2020

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Global high consequence infectious disease events: summary April to June 2020

Ref: PHE publications gateway number GW-1446 PDF, 334KB, 13 pages

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Global high consequence infectious disease events: summary January to March 2020

Ref: PHE publications gateway number: GW-1264 PDF, 287KB, 14 pages

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Details

Public Health England (PHE) produces a monthly report that provides detailed updates on known HCID events around the world. The purpose of this report is simply to raise awareness.

See also High consequence infectious diseases guidance and HCID country specific risk

HCIDs are defined in the UK according to the following criteria:

• acute infectious disease
• typically has a high case-fatality rate
• may not have effective prophylaxis or treatment
• often difficult to recognise and detect rapidly
• ability to spread in the community and within healthcare settings
• requires an enhanced individual, population and system response to ensure it is managed effectively, efficiently and safely

The HCIDs reports published in 2019 can be found on the National Archives website.

Published 16 February 2018
Last updated 1 December 2020 + show all updates

1. 1 December 2020

   Added the summary for September to October 2020 as an HTML attachment, and linked to archived 2019 reports.

2. 25 September 2020

   Added August 2020 summary.

3. 26 August 2020

   Added July 2020 summary,

4. 24 July 2020

   Added quarterly summary report for April to June 2020.

5. 11 May 2020

   Added January to March 2020 summary.

6. 5 February 2020

   Added December 2019 summary.

7. 27 December 2019

   Added report for November 2019.

8. 5 December 2019

   Added October 2019 summary.

9. 4 November 2019

   Added report for September 2019.

10. 25 September 2019

    Added report for August 2019.

11. 23 August 2019

    Added report for July 2019.

12. 15 July 2019

    Added report for June 2019.

13. 14 June 2019

    Added report for May 2019.

14. 15 May 2019

    Added 'Global high consequence infectious disease events' summary for April 2019.

15. 12 April 2019

    Added 'Global high consequence infectious disease events' summary for March 2019.

16. 15 March 2019

    Added 'Global high consequence infectious disease events' summary for February 2019.

17. 15 February 2019

    Added 'Global high consequence infectious disease events' summary for January 2019.

18. 15 January 2019

    Added 'Global high consequence infectious disease events' summary for December 2018.

19. 14 December 2018

    Added 'Global high consequence infectious disease events' summary for November 2018.

20. 15 November 2018

    Added 'Global high consequence infectious disease events' summary for October 2018.

21. 18 October 2018

    Added 'Global high consequence infectious disease events' summary for September 2018.

22. 18 September 2018

    Added 'Global high consequence infectious disease events' summary for August 2018.

23. 15 August 2018

    Added July 2018 summary

24. 12 July 2018

    Added June 2018 summary.

25. 14 June 2018

    Added May 2018 summary.

26. 16 May 2018

    Added April 2018 summary.

27. 13 April 2018

    Added March 2018 summary.

28. 9 March 2018

    Added February 2018 summary.

29. 16 February 2018

    First published.