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Leptospirosis

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Data

Figure 3. Reported confirmed leptospirosis cases: rates by age group and gender, EU/EEA, 2014

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Figure 5. Reported confirmed leptospirosis cases: trend and case numbers, EU/EEA, 2010−2014

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Table 1. Reported confirmed leptospirosis cases: numbers and rate per 100 000 population, EU/EEA, 2010–2014

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Figure 4. Reported confirmed leptospirosis cases by month, EU/EEA, 2014, compared with 2010−2013

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Publication

Leptospirosis - Annual Epidemiological Report 2016 [2014 data]

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Food- and waterborne diseases and zoonoses - Annual epidemiological report 2014 [2012 data]

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Publication

Floods in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia: communicable disease risks

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The European Union Summary Report on Trends and Sources of Zoonoses, Zoonotic Agents and Food-borne Outbreaks in 2012

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News

Data for 14 food- and waterborne diseases now available on ECDC Surveillance Atlas

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News

Trends in Europe for food- and waterborne diseases and zoonoses

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Recent floods in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia: What are the communicable disease risks?

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Travel-related leptospirosis in Israel: a nationwide study

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Sep 2009

Event

Second Annual Meeting of European Food- and Waterborne Diseases and Zoonoses Network

24 Sep 2009 - 25 Sep 2009
Malta

Data

Figure 3. Reported confirmed leptospirosis cases: rates by age group and gender, EU/EEA, 2014

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Data

Figure 5. Reported confirmed leptospirosis cases: trend and case numbers, EU/EEA, 2010−2014

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Table 1. Reported confirmed leptospirosis cases: numbers and rate per 100 000 population, EU/EEA, 2010–2014

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Figure 4. Reported confirmed leptospirosis cases by month, EU/EEA, 2014, compared with 2010−2013

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Surveillance and disease data

Facts

Leptospirosis is a zoonotic disease caused by Leptospira bacteria.

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Disease programmes and networks

Food- and waterborne diseases and zoonoses Programme

European Legionnaires’ Disease Surveillance Network (ELDSNet)

European Food- and Waterborne Diseases and Zoonoses Network (FWD-Net)

European Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance Network (EuroCJD)

Eurosurveillance

28 April 2016 - Marked increase in leptospirosis infections in humans and dogs in the Netherlands, 2014
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05 March 2015 - Letter to the editor: Trends in human leptospirosis in Denmark, 1980 to 2012
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05 March 2015 - Author's reply: Trends in Human Leptospirosis in Denmark, 1980 to 2012
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29 January 2015 - Trends in Human Leptospirosis in Denmark, 1980 to 2012
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16 January 2014 - Two cases of laboratory-confirmed leptospirosis in travellers returning to Spain from Thailand, September 2013
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