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Press releases and news
Sciensano welcomes the One Health EJP’s Scientific Steering Board to discuss and assess One Health research in Europe. The EJP is a... Read more
Sciensano is the Belgian national reference laboratory for African Swine Fever (ASF).
Sciensano is pleased to announce that An Van den Bossche, a researcher at the service Bacterial diseases of the Scientific Directorate Infectious diseases in humans at Sciensano, received the Best... Read more
Transmissions from latent Ebola virus infections are rare. However, new findings highlight the importance of close surveillance once countries are declared Ebola-free.
Belgians lose on average 73 days due to disability or premature mortality.