Choroby odzwierzęce ludzi przenoszone drogą pokarmową oraz ich bakteryjne czynniki etiologiczne u zwierząt i w żywności w krajach Unii Europejskiej w 2022 r.

Abstract

In November 2023, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), published latest report on the monitoring of zoonoses and zoonotic agents in the European Union (EU)in 2022. The numbers of zoonoses cases were usually higher comparing to 2021. Campylobacteriosis was again the first, most reported zoonotic disease in the EU with 137,107 laboratory confirmed cases, including 528 in Poland.Poultry meat was still the most important food-borne source of Campylobacter organisms. Salmonellosis was the second most commonly recorded zoonosis with 65,208 confirmed cases (6,054 in Poland), and Salmonella spp. was mainly identified in fresh poultry meat and products thereof. In 2022, yersiniosis was the third reported zoonosis in the EU, with a total of 7,912 cases (180 in Poland), followed by E.coli VTEC infections (7,117 infected persons in the EU and only 34 in Poland). The number of listeriosis cases was 2,738 (142 persons in Poland) and the mortality was still high, since 286 persons have died. The number of Francisella tularensis food-borne infections and Q fever cases, were 620 (33 in Poland), and 719 (two in Poland), respectively, which were lower and higher than in the previous year, respectively. Brucella and Mycobacterium bovis or M. caprae infected persons identified in 2022 were of 198 and 130, respectively,with only one case of brucellosis in Poland. This article presents current data on this important health issue in EU countries.