Infectious diseases in Poland in 2019.

Abstract

OBJECTIVE OF THE WORK The article reviews the main problems of the epidemiology of infectious diseases in Poland. It is an introduction to the Epidemiological Chronicle presented annually in the Epidemiological Review. MATERIAL AND METHODS The data contained in this article come from the reports of the State Sanitary Inspectorate collected as part of routine epidemiological surveillance. Information on deaths comes from the reports from Statics Poland. RESULTS AND THEIR DISCUSSION Based on the basic materials, this text presents data on infectious diseases of particular importance due to high incidence, such as influenza and other respiratory infections, or due to increasing trends, such as C. difficile infections, and Lyme disease. Particular attention was paid to diseases against which vaccinations are used and to non-endemic diseases imported from abroad. In the epidemiological characteristics of individual diseases, reference was made mainly to the data on the number of cases, incidence and deaths included in Table 1.