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World Health Organization Global Estimates and Regional Comparisons of the Burden of Foodborne Disease in 2010

PLoS medicine, 2015-12, Vol.12 (12), p.e1001923 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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Title:
World Health Organization Global Estimates and Regional Comparisons of the Burden of Foodborne Disease in 2010
Author: Havelaar, Arie H ; Kirk, Martyn D ; Torgerson, Paul R ; Gibb, Herman J ; Hald, Tine ; Lake, Robin J ; Praet, Nicolas ; Bellinger, David C ; de Silva, Nilanthi R ; Gargouri, Neyla ; Speybroeck, Niko ; Cawthorne, Amy ; Mathers, Colin ; Stein, Claudia ; Angulo, Frederick J ; Devleesschauwer, Brecht
von Seidlein, Lorenz
Subjects: 2010 AD ; Campylobacter ; Collection Review ; Cost of Illness ; Food contamination & poisoning ; Food poisoning ; Food safety ; Foodborne Diseases - economics ; Foodborne Diseases - epidemiology ; Foodborne Diseases - microbiology ; Foodborne Diseases - parasitology ; Global Health ; Hepatitis A virus ; Human immunodeficiency virus ; Humans ; Incidence ; Mortality ; Mycobacterium ; Norovirus ; Prevalence ; Prevalence studies (Epidemiology) ; Quality-Adjusted Life Years ; Salmonella ; Salmonella enterica ; Salmonella typhi ; Statistics ; Taenia solium ; World Health Organization
Is Part Of: PLoS medicine, 2015-12, Vol.12 (12), p.e1001923
Description: Illness and death from diseases caused by contaminated food are a constant threat to public health and a significant impediment to socio-economic development worldwide. To measure the global and regional burden of foodborne disease (FBD), the World Health Organization (WHO) established the Foodborne Disease Burden Epidemiology Reference Group (FERG), which here reports their first estimates of the incidence, mortality, and disease burden due to 31 foodborne hazards. We find that the global burden of FBD is comparable to those of the major infectious diseases, HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis. The most frequent causes of foodborne illness were diarrheal disease agents, particularly norovirus and Campylobacter spp. Diarrheal disease agents, especially non-typhoidal Salmonella enterica, were also responsible for the majority of deaths due to FBD. Other major causes of FBD deaths were Salmonella Typhi, Taenia solium and hepatitis A virus. The global burden of FBD caused by the 31 hazards in 2010 was 33 million Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs); children under five years old bore 40% of this burden. The 14 subregions, defined on the basis of child and adult mortality, had considerably different burdens of FBD, with the greatest falling on the subregions in Africa, followed by the subregions in South-East Asia and the Eastern Mediterranean D subregion. Some hazards, such as non-typhoidal S. enterica, were important causes of FBD in all regions of the world, whereas others, such as certain parasitic helminths, were highly localised. Thus, the burden of FBD is borne particularly by children under five years old-although they represent only 9% of the global population-and people living in low-income regions of the world. These estimates are conservative, i.e., underestimates rather than overestimates; further studies are needed to address the data gaps and limitations of the study. Nevertheless, all stakeholders can contribute to improvements in food safety throughout the food chain by incorporating these estimates into policy development at national and international levels.
Publisher: United States: Public Library of Science
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 1549-1676
ISSN: 1549-1277
EISSN: 1549-1676
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001923
PMID: 26633896
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