Campylobacteriosis in the EU
Campylobacteriosis is the most commonly reported foodborne gastrointestinal infection in humans in the EU and has been so since 2005.
In 2020, Campylobacter reporting recorded the lowest number of human cases since campylobacteriosis surveillance began in 2007, owing to the impacts of the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the EU and the COVID-19 pandemic.
In 2020, the number of confirmed cases of human campylobacteriosis totalled 120,946, corresponding to an EU notification rate of 40.3 per 100,000 population. This is a decrease of 33.4% and 25.4% compared with the rate in 2019 (60.6 and 54.0 per 100,000 population)with and without the 2019 data from the United Kingdom, respectively.
The most common food vehicles for the strong-evidence campylobacteriosis foodborne outbreaks were ‘broiler meat’ and 'raw milk' as in previous years.
