Foodborne and enteric illness outbreak investigations :
Explore data from enteric and foodborne illness outbreak investigations in Canada.
- Last updated: 2026-01-20
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Use the filters on the left to select pathogens, food groups, and specify a range of years. Based on your filters, you can view:
- annual trends (based on the year of the investigation)
- seasonal trends (based on the month when the earliest case had onset of illness)
*Annually, the Public Health Agency of Canada detects a seasonal increase in Cyclospora cases that are not associated with international travel outside of Canada. A single source of the illness is not determined for all cases reported in that year. If a food source is confirmed or suspected, it is only for a subset of cases.
Filters
Trends by investigation year
Trends by month of earliest case onset
Trends by pathogen
Outbreak linelist table
In this linelist table, each row is an outbreak investigation, and the columns list information that describes the outbreak. The table can be searched by keyword and sorted by:
- year
- pathogen
- pathogen subtype
- food type and details
- number of cases
- number of hospitalizations
- number of deaths
*Annually, the Public Health Agency of Canada detects a seasonal increase in Cyclospora cases that are not associated with international travel outside of Canada. A single source of the illness is not determined for all cases reported in that year. If a food source is confirmed or suspected, it is only for a subset of cases.
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