Anthrax - Annual Epidemiological Report for 2018

Surveillance report
17 Aug 2022
Publication series: Annual Epidemiological Report on Communicable Diseases in Europe
Time period covered: This report is based on data for 2018 retrieved from The European Surveillance System (TESSy) on 12 August 2019.
Cite:

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. Anthrax. In: ECDC. Annual epidemiological report for 2018. Stockholm: ECDC; 2022.

Anthrax continues to be an uncommon disease in humans in Europe, with only a few cases reported every year. For 2018, three confirmed anthrax cases were reported, one each in Netherlands, Romania and Spain. Twenty-seven EU/EEA countries notified zero confirmed cases.

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