Leptospirosis
(asked on 12th December 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many leptospirosis cases were diagnosed in hospital settings in each of the last five years.
Answered by
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This question was answered on 18th December 2023
Whilst we do not report data on settings where cases were diagnosed, the following table shows the number of confirmed leptospirosis cases in England between 2019 and 2023:
Year | Number of confirmed leptospirosis cases in England |
2019 | 83 |
2020 | 50 |
2021 | 54 |
2022 | 52 |
2023 (up to 30 June) | 13 |