A literature review by RIVM shows that little to no research has been done on the possible infectious risks of manure.

RIVM, Wageningen Bioveterinary Research (WBVR) and the Netherlands Centre for One Health (NCOH) are involved in a recently granted One Health European Joint Programme which will start in January 20

Influenza vaccination reduces the number of influenza virus infections but not the overall number of illness.

Last winter season, the duration and severity of the influenza epidemic was moderate compared to previous years.

COPD patients living near livestock farms suffer more complications.

Construction and demolition waste are being recycled on a large scale to use as a foundation for e.g. roads, but recycled building materials are hardly ever used in the construction of buildings.

In 2014, there were more patients in the Netherlands with diseases transmitted by wild rodents than in previous years.

The flu epidemic in the winter of 2014 / 2015 lasted 21 weeks and as such was the longest epidemic ever recorded in the Netherlands. Nearly two million people suffered from flu-like symptoms.

At the start of the “Tick Awareness Week”, the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) and Wageningen UR are commencing a large-scale study on the long-term effects of

Last year, a man was treated at the Amsterdam Academic Medical Centre (AMC) after being bitten by a tick and becoming infected with a strain of the Borrelia bacterium not previously encountered in