The figures were published by Statistics Poland (GUS) in a report titled Health and Health Protection in 2024.
Cases of whooping cough increased thirtyfold in 2024 to 32,800, up from about 1,000 a year earlier. The infection rate rose to 87.2 cases per 100,000 people, compared with 2.4 per 100,000 in 2023.
Tick-borne Lyme disease cases rose for a third consecutive year, reaching nearly 29,900 infections, an 18.1 percent increase from 2023, the report said.
Scarlet fever cases also increased for the third year in a row, totalling about 48,500 in 2024, up 8.3 percent year on year. The infection rate rose to 129.1 cases per 100,000 people.
Measles cases increased eightfold to 272, or 0.72 cases per 100,000 people, compared with 0.09 per 100,000 in 2023. It marked the highest number of measles infections since 2019, when more than 1,500 cases were recorded.
GUS also reported increases in viral hepatitis types A, B and C, infectious gastrointestinal diseases and invasive pneumococcal disease.
By contrast, cases of pulmonary and extrapulmonary tuberculosis fell to 4,236 in 2024, about 200 fewer than the previous year.
Pulmonary tuberculosis accounted for 96.6 percent of cases.
The number of people treated for syphilis and gonorrhea also declined, with 3,023 cases reported in 2024—a drop of about 9.5 percent from a year earlier.
(pm/gs)
Source: PAP