Episode 49 - Nick Bundle - Why Monitoring Respiratory Viruses Matters

ECDC: On Air

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control

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5 • 3 Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

In this episode we take a closer look at the data collection for respiratory viruses and why we should take this more seriously than just a cough or a sneeze.

Nick Bundle, ECDC expert on respiratory viruses, also gives us the lowdown on the European Respiratory Virus Surveillance Summary (ERVISS), a new surveillance tool which presents weekly data on influenza, SARS-CoV-2 and RSV.

ERVISS platform is available here.

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0:00.0	ECDC on Air.
0:05.0	The podcast of the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control.
0:09.0	Keeping up to date with European Epidemiology.
0:15.0	Hello, my name is Nicholas and I'm your host for today's episode of ECDC on Air,
0:20.0	which is the podcast for the
0:21.4	European Center for Disease Prevention and Control. Today we're going to be talking about
0:25.2	surveillance for respiratory viruses in the EU and part of a team to set up the European respiratory viruses surveillance summary, or in shorter form, Ervis.
0:57.1	So welcome, Nick.
0:58.4	Can you start off by explaining what you do at ECDC and what your work entails?
1:02.4	Thanks, Nicholas.
1:03.1	Thanks for having me.
1:04.2	Yeah, so I work in a group called Respiratory Viruses and Legionella Group.
1:08.5	We're probably about eight people working on respiratory viruses.
1:13.0	The main viruses we focus on our influenza, SARS-CoV-2, so that's the virus that causes COVID-19
1:20.9	disease, and increasingly RSV as well. Myself, my main responsibilities are on the surveillance of these pathogens. So we collect
1:31.7	data on a weekly basis from 30 EU and the EA member states. We do a lot of work around cleaning,
1:39.6	processing, analyzing and then also displaying and interpreting that data to inform risk assessment
1:47.0	and our understanding of the kind of epidemiological situation on an ongoing basis.
1:51.0	We work very closely with the countries that are providing this data.
1:55.0	We have to define the metadata, so the kind of way in which the data should be reported
2:00.0	and the types of variables that we collect.
2:01.6	And then all these data are collected in a database called Tessi, which is the European surveillance system,
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