Table 4.

Food As a Factor in the Transmission of Botulism Among the Dead from Botulism in Ukraine in 1955–2018

Years	No. of deaths of botulism	Food product known	Percentage of meat products, %	Percentage of fishery products, %	Percentage of mushroom products, %	Percentage of mushroom products, %
1955–1985	231	174	17.82	57.47	19.54	5.17
1991–2002	209	192	28.65	58.85	8.33	4.17
2017–2018	21	21	14.29	80.95	0.00	4.76
Total	461	387	23.00	59.43	12.92	4.65

We took cases with known food as 100%.