Latest Annual Report on Notifiable Diseases in Germany published

RKI’s Infectious Disease Epidemiology Annual Report has been published, providing a summary of notifications of infectious diseases reported to the institute in 2016. As in the previous year, the gastrointestinal diseases – norovirus gastroenteritis, Campylobacter enteritis and rotavirus gastroenteritis, as well as the vaccine-preventable diseases – influenza and chickenpox, were among the five most commonly reported notifiable diseases. Rising case numbers of Campylobacter enteritis, hepatitis E and whooping cough were observed in 2016. For other notifiable diseases, a significant drop in the number of cases was observed over the last few years, not least due to effective infection control measures.

In accordance with the German Protection against Infection Act, the Robert Koch Institute records and analyses data on the occurrence of various infectious diseases in Germany. The results are published each year; an executive summary is also available in English.