EFSA SAYS CAMPYLOBACTER IS NOW EUROPE’S MOST COMMON ANIMAL-BASED DISEASE
January 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALLThe European Food Safety Authority has announced that campylobacteriosis has overtaken salmonellosis as "the most reported animal infection transmitted to humans in the EU" adding that there was "growing concern over resistance of the infection to antibiotics."In its annual report for 2005 on zoonoses (diseases or infections transmissible from animals to humans either directly or through contaminated foodstuffs), EFSA reported that campylobacter infections in humans increased by 7.8% rising to an incidence rate of 51.6 cases per 100,000 people and ...
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