Table 66.
Number of food‐borne (including waterborne) outbreaks, human cases, hospitalisations and deaths, per causative agents in the reporting Member States, EU, 2017
| Type of agent | Outbreaks | Cases | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strong‐evidence outbreaks | Weak‐evidence outbreaks | Total outbreaks | % of total | Reporting rate per 100,000 | Human cases | Mean number per outbreak | Hospitalised | Deaths | ||||
| n | n | n | n | n | % of cases | n | % of cases | |||||
| Bacteria | Brucella | 0 | 1 | 1 | < 0.1 | < 0.01 | 2 | 2.0 | 1 | 50.0 | 0 | 0 |
| Campylobacter | 33 | 362 | 395 | 7.8 | 0.08 | 1,445 | 3.7 | 207 | 14.3 | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Listeria | 4 | 6 | 10 | 0.2 | < 0.01 | 39 | 3.9 | 22 | 56.4 | 2 | 5.1 | |
| Salmonella | 269 | 972 | 1,241 | 24.4 | 0.24 | 9,600 | 7.7 | 2,227 | 23.2 | 11 | 0.1 | |
| Shiga toxin‐producing E. coli (STEC) | 9 | 39 | 48 | 0.9 | 0.01 | 260 | 5.4 | 65 | 25.0 | 2 | 0.8 | |
| Vibrio | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0.1 | < 0.01 | 59 | 19.7 | 7 | 11.9 | 0 | 0 | |
| Other bacterial agents/Unspecified | 5 | 41 | 46 | 0.9 | 0.01 | 816 | 17.7 | 67 | 8.2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Subtotal | 320 | 1,424 | 1,744 | 34.3 | 0.34 | 12,221 | 7.0 | 2,596 | 21.2 | 16 | 0.1 | |
| Bacterial toxins | Clostridium botulinum | 5 | 4 | 9 | 0.2 | < 0.01 | 26 | 2.9 | 26 | 100.0 | 2 | 7.7 |
| Other bacterial toxins | 110 | 699 | 809 | 15.9 | 0.16 | 8,442 | 10.4 | 577 | 6.8 | 5 | < 0.1 | |
| Subtotal | 115 | 703 | 818 | 16.1 | 0.16 | 8,468 | 10.4 | 583 | 6.9 | 7 | 0.1 | |
| Viruses | Norovirus and other caliciviruses | 52 | 159 | 211 | 4.2 | 0.04 | 6,550 | 31.0 | 153 | 2.3 | 2 | 0 |
| Hepatitis A | 6 | 84 | 90 | 1.8 | 0.02 | 591 | 6.6 | 452 | 76.5 | 2 | 0.3 | |
| Other viruses/unspecified | 12 | 85 | 97 | 1.9 | 0.02 | 1,379 | 14.2 | 107 | 7.8 | 0 | 0 | |
| Subtotal | 70 | 328 | 398 | 7.8 | 0.08 | 8,520 | 21.4 | 712 | 8.4 | 4 | < 0.1 | |
| Parasites | Cryptosporidium | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0.1 | < 0.01 | 15 | 3.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| Trichinella | 9 | 2 | 11 | 0.2 | < 0.01 | 199 | 18.1 | 125 | 62.8 | 0 | 0 | |
| Other parasites/unspecified | 0 | 13 | 13 | 0.3 | < 0.01 | 28 | 2.2 | 1 | 3.6 | 0 | 0 | |
| Subtotal | 9 | 20 | 29 | 0.6 | 0.01 | 242 | 8.3 | 126 | 52.1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Other causative agents | Histamine | 56 | 61 | 117 | 2.3 | 0.02 | 572 | 4.9 | 51 | 8.9 | 0 | 0 |
| Marine biotoxins | 17 | 37 | 54 | 1.1 | 0.01 | 170 | 3.1 | 14 | 8.2 | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Mushroom toxins | 2 | 5 | 7 | 0.1 | < 0.01 | 22 | 3.1 | 16 | 72.7 | 0 | 0 | |
| Other/Unspecified | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0.1 | < 0.01 | 6 | 2.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Subtotal | 75 | 106 | 181 | 3.6 | 0.04 | 770 | 4.3 | 81 | 10.5 | 0 | 0 | |
| Unknown | Unknown | 54 | 1,828 | 1,882 | 37.1 | 0.37 | 12,794 | 6.8 | 423 | 3.3 | 6 | < 0.1 |
| Unspecified | 0 | 27 | 27 | 0.5 | 0.01 | 385 | 14.3 | 20 | 5.2 | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Subtotal | 54 | 1,855 | 1,909 | 37.6 | 0.37 | 13,179 | 6.9 | 443 | 3.4 | 6 | < 0.1 | |
| Total (EU) | 643 | 4,436 | 5,079 | 100.0 | 0.99 | 43,400 | 8.5 | 4,541 | 10.5 | 33 | < 0.1 | |
In Sweden, a large domestic campylobacteriosis outbreak continued in 2017 with hundreds of cases in 2017. As the outbreak had been reported in 2016 data, it was not repeatedly reported in 2017.
Other bacterial agents include Aeromonas hydrophila, enteroaggregative E. coli (EAEC), Enterotoxigenic E. coli (ETEC), Enteroinvasive E. coli (EIEC), Enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC), Shigella flexneri, Shigella sonnei, Yersinia enterocolitica and other unspecified bacteria. Other bacterial toxins include toxins produced by Bacillus, Clostridium other than Clostridium botulinum and Staphylococcus and other unspecified bacterial toxins. Other viruses include adenovirus, flavivirus, hepatitis E virus, rotavirus and other unspecified viruses. Marine biotoxins include ciguatoxin and other unspecified toxins. Other toxins include scombrotoxin. Other parasites include Giardia and other unspecified parasites.