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Lassa fever in Germany

Lassa fever has 3 WHO-tracked outbreak events in Germany between 2000 and 2016.

Lassa fever · Germany · 3 WHO events across 3 calendar years (2000–2016).

Event log

Year DON ID ICD-10 ICD-11
2016 DON2237, DON2210 A962 1D61
2006 DON1139 A962 1D61
2000 DON0385, DON0365, DON0367 A962 1D61

Annual cadence

Year Events
2016 1
2006 1
2000 1

Most active year: 2016 with 1 event.
Quiet years with no events: 14.

Position within the disease

  • Germany is rank #4 of 13 for this disease.
  • The country sits in the WHO EUR region.
  • Last reported event: 2016 (10 years ago).

Regional peers (EUR)

4 countries in this region report this disease. Median event count: 3.

Country Events
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 3
Germany 3
Netherlands 2
Sweden 1

How this disease ranks among Germany’s threats

Lassa fever is rank #3 of 12 diseases reported by Germany to the WHO. The full country profile is at the Germany Hub.

Germany health system snapshot

Indicator 2023
Population 84,000,000
Life expectancy 81.20 yr
Healthy life expectancy 70.90 yr
Hospital beds /1k 7.90
Physicians /1k 4.50
Healthcare spending % GDP 12.80%
DTP3 vaccination 93.00%
TB incidence /100k 7.00
HIV prevalence 0.10%

Outbreak Events

3

First Reported

2000

Latest Reported

2016

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