Cryptosporidiosis - Annual Epidemiological Report for 2020

For 2020, 24 European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) countries reported 4 164 confirmed cryptosporidiosis cases. The notification rate was 1.7 confirmed cases per 100 000 population – the lowest in the past five years. The lower number of cases reported in 2020 is attributable to the COVID-19 pandemic and the absence of data from the United Kingdom, which stopped reporting data in 2020 due to its withdrawal from the EU.

Five countries accounted for 65% of all confirmed cases, and Germany alone accounted for 28%. The number of cases peaked in August, in line with the seasonal pattern observed previously. Children aged 0–4 years had the highest notification rate (5.4 cases per 100 000 population), although it was about one-third of the rate observed during the previous five years.