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. 2023 Dec 12;21(12):e8442. doi: 10.2903/j.efsa.2023.8442

TABLE 2.

Reported hospitalisations and deaths due to zoonoses in confirmed human cases and among foodborne outbreak cases in the EU, 2022.

Disease Surveillance data on human cases (source: ECDC) Foodborne outbreaks (source: EFSA)
Confirmed human cases Hospitalisations Deaths Outbreaks Cases Hospitalisations and proportion of hospitalised cases Deaths and case fatality
Status available Reporting MSs a Cases and proportion of hospitalised cases Outcome available Reporting MSs a Deaths and Case fatality
N N % N N % N % N N % N N N % N %
Campylobacteriosis 137,107 44,876 327 16 10,551 23.5 84,425 61.6 17 34 0.04 255 1097 83 7.6 0 0
Salmonellosis 65,208 29,003 44.5 17 11,287 38.9 36,856 56.5 17 81 0.22 1014 6632 1406 21.2 8 0.12
Yersiniosis 7919 2113 26.7 17 636 30.1 3765 47.5 17 0 0 14 96 4 4.2 0 0
STEC infections 7117 2933 41.2 17 1130 38.5 4824 67.8 21 28 0.58 71 408 63 15.4 1 0.25
Listeriosis 2738 1386 50.6 19 1330 96.0 1578 57.6 21 286 18.1 35 296 242 81.8 28 9.5
West Nile virus infection b 1111 366 32.9 8 318 86.9 1111 100.0 11 92 8.3 NA NA NA NA NA NA
Echinococcosis 722 277 38.4 15 128 46.2 405 56.1 15 1 0.25 0 0 0 0
Q fever 719 NA NA NA NA NA 445 61.9 14 4 0.90 0 0 0 0
Tularaemia 620 151 24.4 10 91 60.3 227 36.6 11 2 0.88 0 0 0 0
Brucellosis 198 79 39.9 10 55 69.6 81 40.9 10 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tuberculosis caused by M. bovis, M. caprae 130 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Trichinellosis c 41 11 26.8 5 7 63.6 11 26.8 5 0 0 7 68 10 14.7 0 0
Rabies 0 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA

Abbreviation: NA, Not applicable, as information is not collected for this disease.

Note: Data on congenital toxoplasmosis are not shown, since 2022 data are not available yet.

a

Not all countries provided case data for all diseases.

b

For West Nile virus infection, the total number of locally acquired infection cases was used (includes probable and confirmed cases).

c

The number of cases also includes two cases reported from Finland, by error.