Volume 17, Number 9—September 2011
Synopsis
Risk-based Estimate of Effect of Foodborne Diseases on Public Health, Greece
Elissavet Gkogka
, Martine W. Reij, Arie H. Havelaar, Marcel H. Zwietering, and Leon G.M. Gorris
, Martine W. Reij, Arie H. Havelaar, Marcel H. Zwietering, and Leon G.M. Gorris
Table 3
Mean estimated incidence of total foodborne illnesses, reported/estimated illnesses, and deaths attributed to food in Greece per 1 million inhabitants, 1996–2006*
| Illnesses | Incidence per million inhabitants | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total illnesses | Reported/estimated illnesses | Deaths | ||||||
| Mean† | 95% CrI‡ | Mean† | 95% CrI‡ | Mean† | 95% CrI‡ | |||
| Bacterial | ||||||||
| Botulism | 0.13 | 0.011–0.28 | 0.066 | 0.056–0.15 | 0.0067 | 0.00052–0.017 | ||
| Brucellosis | 699 | 225–1,378 | 64 | 30–102 | 1.5 | 0.52–3.0 | ||
| Campylobacteriosis | 3,571 | 851–7,733 | 13 | 5.6–22 | 0.016 | 0.0069–0.029 | ||
| EHEC | 1.0 | 0.069–2.8 | 0.072 | 0.0058–0.17 | 0.00039 | 0.000030–0.00098 | ||
| Leptospirosis | 4.0 | 0.34–13 | 0.27 | 0.023–0.84 | 0.027 | 0.0022–0.087 | ||
| Listeriosis | 0.89 | 0.11–1.9 | 0.41 | 0.049–0.85 | 0.19 | 0.021–0.45 | ||
| Salmonellosis | 3,793 | 750–8,350 | 74 | 22–128 | 0.52 | 0.15–0.93 | ||
| Shigellosis | 25 | 1.1–77 | 1.4 | 0.068–3.8 | 0.0018 | 0.000088–0.0050 | ||
| Typhoid and paratyphoid fever | 37 | 3.3–92 | 4.8 | 0.47–10 | 0.046 | 0.0043–0.11 | ||
| Food poisoning | 6,636 | 450–17,569 | 36 | 2.8–80 | 0.0089 | 0.00055–0.025 | ||
| Parasitic | ||||||||
| Amebiasis | 13 | 1.9–29 | 1.3 | 0.19–3.0 | 0.0026 | 0.00037–0.0064 | ||
| Cryptosporidiosis | 197 | 71–360 | 3.7 | 2.4–5.3 | 0.013 | 0.0050–0.022 | ||
| Echinococcosis | 72 | 29–140 | 24 | 10–45 | 0.52 | 0.19–1.0 | ||
| Giardiasis | 159 | 47–358 | 6.3 | 2.7–12 | 0.0031 | 0.00069–0.0074 | ||
| Toxoplasmosis | 3.4 | 2.5–4.1 | 3.2 | 2.4–4.0 | 0.12 | 0.090–0.16 | ||
| Other helminthiases | 137 | 22–322 | 2.7 | 0.56–5.1 | 0.089 | 0.019–0.17 | ||
| Viral: hepatitis A | 6.9 | 1.4–15 | 1.2 | 0.27–2.4 | 0.017 | 0.0031–0.038 | ||
| Mixed/ill-defined causes | ||||||||
| Intestinal infections caused by other specified microorganism | 7,394 | 354–25,558 | 14 | 1.2–36 | 0.035 | 0.031–0.091 | ||
| Ill-defined intestinal infections | 346,558 | 45,985–886,276 | 655 | 256–1,082 | 0.030 | 0.012–0.049 | ||
| Total of gastroenteritis | 368,520 | 67,536–909,457 | 812 | 408–1,245 | 0.95 | 0.52–1.4 | ||
| Total | 369,305 | 68,283–910,608 | 905 | 499–1,340 | 3.1 | 2.0–4.8 | ||
*Values have been rounded to include significant digits and thus not all summations necessarily tally. Boldface indicates the top 5 contributors to each estimate category. EHEC, enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli; CrI, credible interval.
†These estimates correspond to the mean of the output distributions.
‡95% CrI representative of the 2.5 and 97.5 percentiles.
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