Zika virus disease - Annual Epidemiological Report for 2020

Surveillance report
17 Mar 2023
Publication series: Annual Epidemiological Report on Communicable Diseases in Europe
Time period covered: This report is based on data for 2020 retrieved from The European Surveillance System (TESSy) on 25 October 2021. TESSy is a system for the collection, analysis and dissemination of data on communicable diseases.
Cite:

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. Zika virus disease. In: ECDC. Annual epidemiological report for 2020. Stockholm: ECDC; 2023.

For 2020, nine EU/EEA countries reported 22 cases of Zika virus (ZIKV) disease, the lowest number
ever reported since the start of EU/EEA surveillance in 2016. All cases with available information (20/22) were associated with travel outside the EU/EEA. All cases with available information (7/22) were infected through mosquitoes.