Table 58.
Reported human cases of cystic and alveolar echinococcosis in EU MSs and non‐MS countries, by country, year and Echinococcus species, 2017–2021
| Country | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total Cases | Eg | Em | Total Cases | Eg | Em | Total Cases | Eg | Em | Total Cases | Eg | Em | Total Cases | Eg | Em | |
| Austria | 42 | 24 | 7 | 34 | 18 | 4 | 36 | 16 | 13 | 46 | 29 | 12 | 50 | 37 | 8 |
| Belgium | 18 | 11 | 7 | 19 | 10 | 8 | 22 | 12 | 10 | 15 | 10 | 5 | 13 | 9 | 4 |
| Bulgaria | 89 | 89 | 0 | 95 | 95 | 0 | 193 | 193 | 0 | 206 | 206 | 0 | 218 | 218 | 0 |
| Croatia | 3 | – | – | 3 | – | – | 3 | – | – | 4 | – | – | 15 | – | – |
| Cyprus | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Czechia | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | – | – | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | – | – |
| Denmark (a) | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Estonia | 4 | – | – | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Finland (b) | 6 | 5 | – | 4 | 3 | – | 8 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| France | 75 | 22 | 53 | 53 | 11 | 42 | 45 | 10 | 35 | 62 | 21 | 41 | 53 | 5 | 48 |
| Germany | 152 | 89 | 40 | 170 | 80 | 54 | 150 | 87 | 41 | 176 | 93 | 59 | 141 | 86 | 35 |
| Greece | 4 | – | – | 7 | 7 | 0 | 7 | – | – | 11 | – | – | 15 | – | – |
| Hungary | 7 | – | – | 4 | 1 | – | 10 | – | – | 9 | – | – | 14 | 1 | 1 |
| Ireland (b) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Italy (a) | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Latvia | 6 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 4 | – | 10 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 4 | – |
| Lithuania | 20 | 2 | 14 | 37 | – | – | 81 | 30 | 21 | 50 | 11 | 17 | 53 | 19 | 20 |
| Luxembourg | 1 | – | – | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Malta (b) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Netherlands | 0 | 0 | 0 | 48 | – | – | 48 | – | – | 42 | – | – | 38 | – | – |
| Poland | 26 | 12 | 11 | 18 | 8 | 6 | 70 | 21 | 25 | 51 | 17 | 19 | 75 | 27 | 31 |
| Portugal | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 2 | – | – |
| Romania | 1 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – | – | 4 | – | – | 14 | – | – |
| Slovakia | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 3 |
| Slovenia | 11 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | – | 6 | 1 | – | 6 | 3 | – | 7 | – | – |
| Spain (c) | 33 | 1 | – | 8 | 1 | – | 34 | 6 | – | 68 | 12 | – | 83 | 4 | – |
| Sweden | 25 | 12 | 0 | 23 | 8 | 3 | 26 | 17 | 2 | 29 | 5 | 2 | 34 | 11 | 4 |
| EU Total 27 | 529 | 278 | 137 | 544 | 255 | 121 | 766 | 414 | 155 | 815 | 426 | 161 | 847 | 430 | 155 |
| United Kingdom (b) | – | – | – | – | – | – | 3 | 3 | 0 | – | – | – | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| EU Total (d) | 529 | 278 | 137 | 544 | 255 | 121 | 769 | 417 | 155 | 815 | 426 | 161 | 851 | 434 | 155 |
| Iceland | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Norway (b) | 11 | 5 | – | 6 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 2 | – | 7 | 5 | – | 6 | 3 | 1 |
| Liechtenstein (a) | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Switzerland (a) | – | – | – | – | |||||||||||
Eg: Echinococcus granulosus sensu lato; Em: Echinococcus multilocularis.
–: Data not reported.
(a)
: No surveillance system.
(b)
: Finland, Ireland, Malta, the United Kingdom and mainland Norway have been declared free of E. multilocularis.
(c)
: Data not complete for 2020–2021.
(d)
: Cases reported by the United Kingdom for the period 2017–2019 were also considered for this estimation (EU‐28). When the United Kingdom data were collected for the period 2017–2019, the United Kingdom was an EU MS, but it became a third country on 1 February 2020.