European report warns of the rise of diseases transmitted by animals: "Never before so many cases of listeriosis in almost 20 years”

It has been almost 20 years since there were so many cases of the rare infectious disease listeriosis in Europe. The European Center for Disease Prevention and Control reports this in their new report. They call for more to be done to prevent the spread of this zoonosis. But what exactly is a zoonosis? And what does the report say? HLN science expert Martijn Peters explains. “Belgium is in sixth place in terms of the number of infections.”

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