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2000 and 2010, there appears to have been little noticeable reduction in cases,
with the number sticking generally between 300 and 400. There will be a
percentage of these case associated with overseas travel, but despite that, there
appears to be little sign of a reduction in the overall numbers. In 2011 the
number is likely to be 267 cases. Numbers for 2012 have yet to be confirmed
in England andWales although there were 104 cases in Scotland alone during
that year.
Cases in other European Countries
Each year in Europe, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and
Control, publishes a Surveillance Report – Legionnaires’ disease in Europe.
[5] At the time of writing, the most current report is for 2011 and the reports
are generally published 2 years in arrears.
Thesurveillancereport isbasedonLegionnaires’disease(LD) surveillance
data collected by the European Legionnaires’ Disease Surveillance Network
(ELDSNet) and coordinated by the European Centre for Disease Prevention
and Control (ECDC) in Stockholm. Data was collected by nominated
ELDSNet experts for each European country and electronically reported to
The European Surveillance System (TESSy) database.
Each year there is a lot of useful data in the report, but the details, as is
often the case with these reports, often leaves a number of questions, as well
as helping with the delivery of answers.
In the 2011 report, data was presented from 28 European countries. The
table below has data extracted from one of the tables in the report and gives
the number of cases of Legionnaires’ Disease per million population in the
country.
