Volume 17, Number 12—December 2011
CME ACTIVITY
Worldwide Occurrence and Impact of Human Trichinellosis, 1986–2009
K.rwin Murrell
and Edoardo Pozio
and Edoardo PozioTable 6
Types of meat linked to trichinellosis cases and outbreaks in the world, by World Health Organization region and country, 1986–2009*
| Region/country | Meat source, % cases or outbreaks |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Domestic pig | Wild game | Other | |
| African Region: Ethiopia | 0 | 100 | 0 |
| Region of the Americas | |||
| Argentina, Chile | 100 | 0 | 0 |
| Canada | 0 | 100 | 0 |
| United States | 57 | 43 | 0 |
| Mexico | 86 | 0 | 14 (horse) |
| Eastern Mediterranean Region: Iran and Lebanon | 0 | 100 | 0 |
| European Region | |||
| Belarus, Croatia, Georgia, Macedonia, Serbia, United Kingdom | 100 | 0 | 0 |
| Estonia, Turkey, Ukraine | 50 | 50 | 0 |
| France | 0 | 65 | 35 (horse) |
| Germany | 83 | 17 | 0 |
| Greece, Israel | 0 | 100 | 0 |
| Hungary | 52 | 48 | 0 |
| Italy | 38 | 38 | 24 (horse) |
| Lithuania | 48 | 52 | 0 |
| Poland | 41 | 59 | 0 |
| Romania | 95 | 5 | 0 |
| Slovakia | 50 | 25 | 25 (dog) |
| Spain | 60 | 40 | 0 |
| South-East Asian Region: Thailand | 50 | 50 | 0 |
| Western Pacific Region | |||
| People’s Republic of China | 86 | 13 | 1 (dog and others) |
| Japan | 25 | 75 | 0 |
| South Korea | 0 | 100 | 0 |
| India, Laos, Papua New Guinea | 50 | 50 | 0 |
| Singapore, Vietnam | 100 | 0 | 0 |
*Data for each country aggregated from our database of studies. Data are from reports cited in the Technical Appendix, section A.
