A note from the editors: enterovirus D68 epidemiology in France and Germany-food for thought.

Worldwide emergence of enterovirus (EV) D68 causing severe respiratory illness particularly in children, between 2008 and 2014, has been described in numerous articles. In 2014, EV-D68 gained particular attention when a large outbreak in children, associated with severe respiratory illness and possible neurological illness, occurred in the United States [1-3]. This event triggered a number of surveillance activities in various countries, some of them published in Eurosurveillance [4-8]. In our current issue we present investigations into the occurrence of EV-D68 in two European countries namely France and Germany.