Salmonellosis - Annual Epidemiological Report for 2019

Surveillance and monitoring

10 Jan 2023

Publication series: Annual Epidemiological Report

Time period covered: This report is based on data for 2019, retrieved from The European Surveillance System (TESSy) on 5 October 2020.

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Salmonellosis is the second most commonly reported gastrointestinal infection, and an important cause of food-borne outbreaks in the EU/EEA. In 2019, 89 066 laboratory-confirmed cases of salmonellosis were reported, out of which 139 were fatal.

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