Cholera - Annual Epidemiological Report for 2016

Surveillance report

11 Dec 2018

Publication series: Annual Epidemiological Report

Time period covered: This report is based on data for 2016 retrieved from The European Surveillance System (TESSy) on 21 February 2018.

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Cholera is a rare travel-associated disease in the EU/EEA. In 2016, six EU/EEA countries reported 23 laboratory-confirmed cases of cholera, which was in the range of previous years. All cases with known travel history were infected outside of Europe.