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Synthetic cathinones in Belgium: a cluster of poly-drug intoxications involving α-pyrrolidinoisohexiophenone (α-PiHP)
European Union countries where α-pyrrolidinovalerophenone previously dominated. Methods: Three Belgian hospitals in adjacent regions reported intoxications involving α-pyrrolidinoisohexiophenone to the ...
A goatpox but not sheeppox heterologous live attenuated vaccines provide complete protection against lumpy skin disease in cattle under experimental conditions.
Homologous vaccination has proven to be an effective tool to control and eradicate lumpy skin disease. However, their use has been met with some trepidation for diverse reasons, in some regions, and has ...
Local approach to attributable disease burden: a case study on air pollution and mortality in Belgium
national or regional scale. This research proposes a novel approach, where air pollution-related mortality in Belgium was estimated locally, and compares the results to those of the common ‘global’ approach. ...
Ketamine, a new (or old) kid on the block: A comprehensive three-year spatio-temporal study in Belgium through wastewater-based epidemiology
spatio-temporal trends. Daily 24-h composite IWW samples were collected from 26 locations across the northern part of Belgium (Flanders and Brussels region), every Monday and Wednesday in 2023 (n = 716). Additionally, ...
Health networking on cancer in the European Union: a ‘green paper’ by the EU Joint Action on Networks of Expertise (JANE)
states to best exploit health networking and give rise to European networks of national/regional networks; how the idea of subsidiarity may be best interpreted to support health networking in the context ...
COVID-19 mortality statistics: a comparative study of epidemiological surveillance data and death certificates in 2020 in Belgium
probabilistically to explore overall coverages and discrepancies. Factors such as region and place of death, case classification, epidemic wave, age group, sex, and number of conditions, were analysed using logistic ...
A protocol for identifying the needs related to drug use, health and social (re)integration of people living in prison within five European countries
specific national legal requirements, regional differences and distinct local regulations of prison administrations. However, extensive modularity inevitably comes with significant limitations of ...
Sociodemographic and socioeconomic disparities in COVID-19 vaccine uptake in Belgium: a nationwide record linkage study
of its three regions (Flanders, Brussels and Wallonia). Results During the study period, 10% (536 716/5 342 110) of the Belgian adult population included in our study sample was not vaccinated with ...
Estimated number of lives directly saved by COVID-19 vaccination programmes in the WHO European Region from December, 2020, to March, 2023: a retrospective surveillance study.
Region had reported more than 2·2 million COVID-19-related deaths to the WHO Regional Office for Europe. Here, we estimated how many lives were directly saved by vaccinating adults in the WHO European ...
Estimated number of lives directly saved by COVID-19 vaccination programmes in the WHO European Region from December, 2020, to March, 2023: a retrospective surveillance study.
Studies SARS-CoV-2 World Health Organization Abstract: BACKGROUND: By March, 2023, 54 countries, areas, and territories (hereafter CAT) in the WHO European Region had reported more than 2·2 million ...