The tenth UK annual report on zoonoses has been published by Defra [1], bringing together information on trends in incidence of the key zoonoses in recent years and reports on outbreaks.
The report covers the principal food and water-borne zoonoses Campylobacter, Salmonella, Vero cytotoxin-producing E. coli O157 (VTEC O157) and Cryptosporidium as well as the main notifiable zoonotic diseases of animals: bovine tuberculosis, brucellosis, anthrax, rabies, West Nile Virus, BSE and avian influenza.
Main sections of the report cover:
* Campylobacter, the most commonly-reported cause of bacterial food poisoning in humans in 2007. There was an increase in human cases of 10% over the year, with more than 55,000 being reported. However, the long-term trend has been a fall from the peak of over 65,000 cases reported in 2000.
* Salmonella In 2007, 13,213 laboratory reports of Salmonella in humans were recorded in the UK, a decrease of 6.2% compared to the [...]
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