Annual Epidemiological Reports (AERs)

ECDC’s Annual Epidemiological Report is available as a series of individual epidemiological disease reports. Reports will be published as they become available.

Starting with the annual reports based on 2015 data (and published during 2017), this change is also reflected in the titles: reports will no longer be named after the year of publication; instead, the year given in the title (i.e. 'Annual epidemiological report for 2015') refers to the year the data were collected.

All reports on this page are based on data retrieved from TESSy.[1] Countries participating in disease surveillance submitted their data electronically.

The communicable diseases and related health issues covered by the below reports are under European Union and European Economic Area disease surveillance [2],[3],[4],[5],[6]. 

ECDC’s annual surveillance reports provide a wealth of epidemiological data to support decision-making at the national level. They are mainly intended for public health professionals and policymakers involved in disease prevention and control programmes.

Diseases and health topics Annual Epidemiological Reports
 202220212020201920182017201620152014
Anthrax  20212020201920182017201620152014
Antimicrobial consumption 20212020201920182017201620152014
Antimicrobial resistance (EARS-Net) 20212020201920182017201620152014
Botulism 20212020201920182017201620152014
Brucellosis 20212020201920182017201620152014
Campylobacteriosis 2021   2017201620152014
Chikungunya virus disease 20212020201920182017201620152014
Chlamydia infection   201920182017201620152014
Cholera [7] 2021N/A201920182017201620152014
Communicable disease threats to public health in the EU  20202019201820172016N/AN/A
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, variant  2020201920182017201620152014
Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever   2020201920182017201620152014
Cryptosporidiosis    20182017201620152014
Dengue 20212020201920182017201620152014
Diphtheria     20182017201620152014
Ebola and Marburg virus diseases   201920182017201620152014
Echinococcosis   2020201920182017201620152014
Giardiasis (lambliasis)   2019 2017201620152014
Gonorrhoea   201920182017201620152014
Haemophilus influenzae infection, invasive disease     20182017201620152014
Hantavirus infection  2020201920182017201620152014
Healthcare-associated infections: Clostridium difficile infections     20172016N/AN/A
Healthcare-associated infections in intensive care units   201920182017201620152014
Healthcare-associated infections: surgical site infections   2018-2020  2017201620152014
Hepatitis A  20212020201920182017201620152014
Hepatitis B  20212020201920182017201620152014
Hepatitis C   20212020201920182017201620152014
HIV infection and AIDS      2017201620152014
Influenza, seasonal 202220212020201920182017201620152014
Influenza, zoonotic 202220212020201920182017201620152014
Lassa fever    201920182017201620152014
Legionnaires' disease   2020201920182017201620152014
Leptospirosis  20212020201920182017201620152014
Listeriosis  20212020201920182017201620152014
Lymphogranuloma venereum   201920182017201620152014
Malaria  20212020201920182017201620152014
Meningococcal infection, invasive disease    20182017201620152014
Measles2022  201920182017 separate report series
Mumps     20182017201620152014
Pertussis     20182017201620152014
Plague   201920182017201620152014
Pneumococcal disease, invasive     20182017201620152014
Poliomyelitis     20182017201620152014
Q fever    201920182017201620152014
Rabies    201920182017201620152014
Rift Valley fever    201920182017201620152014
Rubella     2017 separate report series
Salmonellosis 20212020201920182017201620152014
Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) [8]    N/AN/AN/A20152014
Shiga toxin/verocytotoxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC/VTEC) infection  20212020201920182017201620152014
Shigellosis   2020201920182017201620152014
Smallpox    201920182017201620152014
Syphilis    201920182017201620152014
Syphilis, congenital   201920182017201620152014
Tetanus     20182017201620152014
Tick-borne encephalitis   2020201920182017201620152014
Toxoplasmosis, congenital  2020201920182017201620152014
Trichinellosis   2020201920182017201620152014
Tuberculosis  20212020201920182017201620152014
Tularaemia    201920182017201620152014
Typhoid and paratyphoid fevers    201920182017201620152014
West Nile virus infection   201920182017201620152014
Yellow fever    201920182017201620152014
Yersiniosis  20212020201920182017201620152014
Zika virus disease 202120202019201820172016N/AN/A

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  1. The European Surveillance System (TESSy) is a system for the collection, analysis and dissemination of data on communicable diseases. EU Member States and EEA countries contribute to the system by uploading their infectious disease surveillance data at regular intervals.
  2. 2000/96/EC: Commission Decision of 22 December 1999 on the communicable diseases to be progressively covered by the Community network under Decision No 2119/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council. Official Journal, OJ L 28, 03.02.2000, p. 50–53.
  3. 2003/534/EC: Commission Decision of 17 July 2003 amending Decision No 2119/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and Decision 2000/96/EC as regards communicable diseases listed in those decisions and amending Decision 2002/253/EC as regards the case definitions for communicable diseases. Official Journal, OJ L 184, 23.07.2003, p. 35–39.
  4. 2007/875/EC: Commission Decision of 18 December 2007 amending Decision No 2119/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and Decision 2000/96/EC as regards communicable diseases listed in those decisions. Official Journal, OJ L 344, 28.12.2007, p. 48–49.
  5. Commission Decision 2119/98/EC of the Parliament and of the Council of 24 September 1998 setting up a network for the epidemiological surveillance and control of communicable diseases in the Community. Official Journal, OJ L 268, 03/10/1998 p. 1–7.
  6. 2002/253/EC: Commission Decision of 19 March 2002 laying down case definitions for reporting communicable diseases to the Community network under Decision No 2119/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council. Official Journal, OJ L 86, 03.04.2002, p. 44–62.
  7. No cases of cholera were reported in the EU in 2020
  8. No cases of SARS virus infection in humans have been reported worldwide since 2003.
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