Legionnaires ’ disease • The European community strategy against antimicrobial resistance

" Neither the European Commission nor any person acting on behalf of the Commission is responsible for the use which might be made of the following information " Leg i on n ai res ' di sease • The European community strategy against antimicrobial resistance • Legionnaires' disease clusters associated Peer-reviewed European information on communicable disease surveillance and control O u t b r e a k r e p o r t s • The importance of maintaining high coverage polio vaccination beyond global eradication of wild type poliomyelitis 55 The Editorial Team 2004 is yet another landmark year for the European Union, as it expands to include 25 member states. In its own way, your journal Eurosurveillance is evolving in response to the challenges of collaboration across many more borders. This first issue of what will be the quarterly printed version of the journal provides the Editorial Team with the opportunity to restate what Eurosurveillance aims to achieve on your behalf, and to set out the changes we have introduced to serve the enlarged Europe and face the changing needs of communicable disease professionals. Since 1995, Eurosurveillance has been providing a publishing service for the prompt exchange of peer-reviewed scientific information from a Europe-wide perspective, to all those who are directly concerned with communicable disease surveillance, prevention and control throughout the European Union and Norway. The collaboration that produces Eurosurveillance has several goals: • The dissemination of authoritative information to accelerate implementation of effective communicable disease surveillance and prevention, and promote international awareness across Europe in responding to communicable disease; • The maintenance and development of a Europe-wide readership of public health and infectious disease professionals that in an emergency situation is sensitised to receiving rapidly authoritative , professional information from the European Commission, designated national authorities, and others (such as the World Health Organization); • The building of capacity and training in public health through making selected information available to the enlarged Europe, and to give authors a European specific tool for publishing high quality papers indexed by Medline; • Improving access to valuable information and sources by providing an easily searchable archive and popular portal where carefully chosen key links are maintained; • Promoting the Network Approach (Decision 2119/98/EC [1]) through publishing communicable disease information and decisions from the Commission, and surveillance outputs from Dedicated Surveillance Networks; • Enlarging and strengthening the European group of editors …