Key Points

Foodborne Illness

• Reports of foodborne illness outbreaks are down compared to previous years.

• A summer peak in foodborne illness was observed in Charente-Maritime and Pyrénées-Atlantiques.

• A significant increase in the proportion of foodborne illness outbreaks in institutional food service settings, particularly in school cafeterias.

• Decrease in the number of foodborne illness outbreaks where the food in question was suspected or confirmed.

Hepatitis A

• Hepatitis A outbreak in 2017, with three epidemic strains circulating among MSM.

Listeriosis

• Number of reported cases stable.

Tularemia

• Decrease in the number of reported cases following a peak observed in 2016.

Brucellosis

• Number of reported cases remains stable.

• La Vienne is the department in the region with the highest reporting rate over a 15-year period.

Botulism

• No cases of botulism were reported in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in 2017.