29/07/2021 (Agence Europe) – On Thursday 29 July, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) published an assessment detailing the health risks that may affect the areas devastated by the floods in mid-July in Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. In this specific event, the relatively small size of the destroyed areas and the proximity of unaffected areas facilitated the response to the disaster, access to relief shelters and drinking water, “possibly mitigating the risk of infections” says ECDC. However, it mentions medium- and long-term risks of food- and water-borne infections and zoonoses, as well as a moderate risk of infections related to the disruption of sanitation and drinking water systems. There is also the risk of the spread of Covid-19 among the displaced. For more details: https://bit.ly/2VkUxtP (AC)