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Hantavirus infection - Annual Epidemiological Report for 2021

Surveillance and monitoring
Publication series: Annual Epidemiological Report
Time period covered: This report is based on data for 2021 retrieved from The European Surveillance System (TESSy) on 25 October 2022. TESSy is a system for the collection, analysis and dissemination of data on communicable diseases.
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European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. Hantavirus infection. In: ECDC. Annual epidemiological report for 2020. Stockholm: ECDC; 2023.
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For 2021, 29 European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) countries reported 4 860 cases of hantavirus infection (1.1 cases per 100 000 population). The year marked the highest rate recorded for the period 2017–2021 during which the overall notification rate fluctuated between 0.4 and 1.1 cases per 100 00 population.

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