As none of the cases have a travel history outside the EU within their period of potential exposure, this represents a multicountry outbreak, with exposure currently taking place in the EU. The descriptive epidemiology indicates foodborne transmission originating from a persistent common source with possible multiple vehicles of infection in the EU that are contaminated with viruses sharing an identical sequence.
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