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Salmonellosis is the second most commonly reported gastrointestinal infection, and an important cause of food-borne outbreaks in the EU/EEA.

In 2016–2017, 1 559 hospital surveillance periods were reported, corresponding to >18.3 million patient admissions and >109 million patient-days.

For 2021, 29 countries (27 European Union (EU) Member States and two European Economic Area (EEA) countries – Iceland and Norway) reported data on antimicrobial consumption.

Twenty-nine European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) countries reported cases of pathogens with antimicrobial resistance (AMR) to the European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Network (EARS-Net) for 2021, based on data for invasive bacterial isolates (i.e. retrieved from blood or cerebrospinal fluid).

For 2020, 24 EU/EEA countries reported 3 817 cases of tick-borne encephalitis (TBE), 3 734 (97.8%) of which were confirmed.

In 2020, nine EU/EEA countries reported 117 confirmed cases of trichinellosis.

For 2020, 21 countries reported 565 confirmed cases of leptospirosis, the lowest number in the period from 2016–2020.

For 2018, 25 EU/EEA countries reported 802 confirmed cases of leptospirosis.