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Lassa fever in Netherlands

Lassa fever has 2 WHO-tracked outbreak events in Netherlands between 2000 and 2019.

Lassa fever · Netherlands · 2 WHO events across 2 calendar years (2000–2019).

Event log

Year DON ID ICD-10 ICD-11
2019 DON2586 A962 1D61
2000 DON0406, DON0405 A962 1D61

Position within the disease

  • Netherlands is rank #5 of 13 for this disease.
  • The country sits in the WHO EUR region.
  • Last reported event: 2019 (7 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 Netherlands’s threats

Lassa fever is rank #4 of 14 diseases reported by Netherlands to the WHO. The full country profile is at the Netherlands Hub.

Netherlands health system snapshot

Indicator 2023
Population 17,500,000
Life expectancy 82.10 yr
Healthy life expectancy 71.30 yr
Hospital beds /1k 3.10
Physicians /1k 3.70
Healthcare spending % GDP 10.90%
DTP3 vaccination 93.00%
TB incidence /100k 5.00
HIV prevalence 0.20%

Outbreak Events

2

First Reported

2000

Latest Reported

2019

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Country

Netherlands • EUR