10.12.2024

The European Union One Health 2023 Zoonoses report

Campylobacteriosis was the most commonly reported food-borne gastrointestinal infection in humans in the European Union. In 2023, there were 148,181 confirmed cases of human campylobacteriosis, corresponding to a European Union notification rate of 45.7 cases per 100,000 population. This was an increase of 4.3% compared with the notification rate in 2022 (43.8 per 100,000 population).
The overall trend for Campylobacter human infections did not show a statistically significant increase or decrease over the 2019–2023 period.
Campylobacter was isolated from all fresh meat categories, with meat from broilers and turkeys showing the highest percentages of contamination, 21.6% and 19.4%, respectively.