Choroby odzwierzęce u ludzi oraz bakteryjne czynniki etiologiczne zoonoz występujące u zwierząt i w żywności w krajach Unii Europejskiej w 2018 r.

In December 2019, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), published the yearly report on the trends and sources of zoonoses and zoonotic agents in the European Union (EU) in 2018. Campylobacteriosis was the most frequently reported zoonotic disease in the EU, with 246.571 laboratory confirmed cases (including 719 in Poland), which means the same number as in 2017. Poultry meat still appears to be the most important food-borne source of Campylobacter spp. Salmonellosis was the second most frequently recorded zoonosis with 91.857 confirmed human cases (9064 in Poland), which was similar as in the 2017 report. Fresh poultry meat and products thereof followed by fresh pig meat were reported as major sources of Salmonella spp. On the other hand, the prevalence of salmonellae in breeding hens, laying hens, broilers and fattening turkeys decreased, in recent years. VTEC infections in humans were the third, most often reported zoonotic disease in the EU, with a total of 8161 confirmed cases (5 in Poland), which was significantly more than in 2017 (6073 patients). Yersiniosis was diagnosed in 7204 people (170 in Poland), which means the increase as compared to 2017 (6823 cases). The number of cases of listeriosis in humans increased to 2549, including 128 in Poland and among them, in the EU, 229 patients died (56 in our country). The number of Q fever and Francisella tularensis infection cases were 789 and 300, respectively (0 and 16 Poland), whereas the number of Brucella spp. and Mycobacterium bovis infections was 358 and 170, respectively (no cases in Poland).