This study describes a full decade of outbreak reporting data in Germany. Over the 10-year period from 2015 to 2024, a total of 3,021 foodborne outbreaks were investigated by the German Federal States. Annual trends in outbreak frequency, causative agents, and clinical outcomes, including case numbers, hospitalisations, and deaths, are presented and discussed. Campylobacter spp. and Salmonella spp. were the leading causes of o...

The number of identified listeriosis outbreaks has increased since the sequence typing of Listeria monocytogenes isolates was established in Germany. Due to the nature of the disease, listeriosis outbreaks are difficult to solve. We present investigational tracing as a simple and rapid method to conduct outbreak investigations. The method was applied in 2019 to stop a prolonged listeriosis outbreak in Germany. The starting poi...