Table 1 Main cholera outbreaks reported by European countries, except for the Russian Federation, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

From: The seventh pandemic of cholera in Europe revisited by microbial genomics

Country

Year

Cases (n)

Deaths (n)

Sequenced isolates (n)

7PET wavea

7PET sublineageb

Southern Europe

     Portugal

1971

64

4

3

1

EUR1/AFR1

 

1974

2467

48

5

1

EUR1/AFR1

 

1975

1066

8

2

1

EUR1/AFR1

     Spain

1971

22

?

2

1

EUR1/AFR1

 

1979

267

?

0

?

?

     Italy

1973

278

23

2

1

EUR1/AFR1

 

1994

12

9c

1

2

EUR6/AFR8

     Albania

1994

626

25

3

2

EUR6/AFR8

Eastern Europe

     Czechoslovakia

1970

4

1

3

1

EUR1/AFR1

     Romaniad

1990

270

1

40

2

EUR4/AFR6

 

1991

226

9

25

2

EUR5

 

1994

80

4

22

2

EUR6/AFR8

 

1995

118

3

23

2

EUR7

     Republic of Moldovae

1995

240

5

5

2

EUR6/AFR8

     Ukrainee

1991

75

0

0

?

?

 

1994

813

20

10

2

EUR6/AFR8

 

1995

525

10

2

2

EUR6/AFR8

 

2011

33

10

3f

3

EUR8

  1. aUnknown; According to Mutreja et al.8.
  2. bSeventh pandemic Vibrio cholerae El Tor (7PET) sublineages according to our study.
  3. cNo death according to Maggi et al.23.
  4. dData reported to the WHO from 1990.
  5. eData reported to the WHO from 1991.
  6. fSequenced by Kuleshov et al.24 and Smirnova et al.25.