ECDC publishes annual epidemiological reports for 2017

The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has published four reports in its series of annual epidemiological reports on communicable diseases in Europe for the year 2017.

• Yersiniosis annual epidemiological report - in 2017, 28 countries reported 6,890 confirmed yersiniosis cases in the EU/EEA. 
• Listeriosis annual epidemiological report - in 2017, 30 countries reported 2,502 confirmed listeriosis cases in the EU/EEA.
• Salmonellosis annual epidemiological report - in 2017, 92,649 laboratory-confirmed cases were reported, of which 156 were fatal. 
• Echinococcosis annual epidemiological report - in 2017, 832 confirmed echinococcosis cases were reported in the EU/EEA. Of these, 412 cases were reported as Echinococcus granulosus, 146 as Echinococcus multilocularis and 274 as unknown species.

Source: ECDC, 30 January 2020