Communicable Diseases Surveillance: Tables - National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS) notifications

This report published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence Volume 27, No 4, December 2003 contains notification data from NNDSS for the period 1 July to 30 September 2003.

Page last updated: 03 December 2003

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Table 2. Notifications of diseases received by State and Territory health authorities in the period 1 July to 30 September 2003, by date of notification*


Disease
State or territory Total 3rd quarter 20031 Total 2nd quarter 2003 Total 3rd quarter 2002 Last 5 years mean 3rd quarter Year to date 2003 Last 5 years YTD mean Ratio
ACT NSW NT Qld SA Tas Vic WA
Bloodborne diseases
Hepatitis B (incident)
0
12
0
11
4
2
14
15
58
90
104
100
240
282
0.6
Hepatitis B (unspecified)
14
762
NN
213
53
20
398
121
1,581
1,673
1,759
1,910
4,786
5,508
0.8
Hepatitis C (incident)
4
30
0
0
14
3
25
29
105
109
95
109
337
334
1.0
Hepatitis C (unspecified)
71
1,837
70
640
145
94
941
287
4,085
3,747
4,050
4,636
11,557
13,944
0.9
Hepatitis D
0
2
0
0
0
0
6
0
8
5
6
5
18
13
1.6
Hepatitis (NEC)
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0.0
Gastrointestinal diseases
Botulism
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
1
2
0.0
Campylobacteriosis2
81
0
51
820
546
144
1,173
454
3,269
3,519
3,367
3,530
11,273
9,961
0.9
Cryptosporidiosis
0
26
1
35
18
11
69
26
186
310
236
172
1,014
1,607
NA
Haemolytic uraemic syndrome
0
0
0
1
2
0
0
0
3
2
4
3
10
9
1.2
Hepatitis A
1
16
7
5
3
2
22
29
85
108
81
254
310
937
0.3
Hepatitis E
0
4
0
0
0
0
1
0
5
1
4
2
8
8
2.1
Listeriosis
0
6
0
1
0
1
2
1
11
20
11
13
51
47
0.8
Salmonellosis
13
233
80
300
68
25
169
99
987
1,620
1,156
1,105
5,366
5455
0.9
Shigellosis
0
8
23
13
8
2
9
27
90
106
110
114
349
416
0.8
SLTEC,VTEC3
0
0
0
3
5
0
0
1
9
12
14
8
40
31
1.1
Typhoid
0
4
0
1
1
0
3
4
13
6
16
15
38
54
0.9
Quarantinable diseases
Cholera
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
3
2
1
3
0.0
Plague
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0.0
Rabies
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0.0
Viral haemorrhagic fever
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0.0
Yellow fever
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0.0
Sexually transimissible diseases
Chlamydial (NEC)
130
1,898
377
1,894
453
170
1,647
914
7,483
7,411
6,318
4,440
22,219
12,962
1.7
Donovanosis
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
1
3
3
6
11
19
0.2
Gonococcal infection4
12
261
326
238
49
1
286
371
1,544
1,694
1,589
1,435
4,996
4,475
1.1
Syphilis
2
201
77
69
4
3
88
12
456
489
531
469
1,466
1,337
1.0
Syphilis - congenital
0
1
3
0
0
0
0
0
4
3
2
2
9
6
1.8
Vaccine preventable disease
Diptheria
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0.0
Haemophilus influenzae type b
0
1
0
3
0
1
1
0
6
8
3
7
16
25
0.8
Influenza (laboratory confirmed)
4
692
110
759
263
7
624
525
2,984
136
2,618
738
3,218
937
NA
Measles
0
9
1
4
10
0
1
0
25
27
17
35
76
130
0.8
Mumps
1
6
0
2
4
0
1
3
17
13
20
42
50
124
0.4
Pertussis
180
721
0
149
52
29
149
34
1,314
832
1,157
1,710
3,047
4,314
0.8
Pneumococcal disease (invasive)
11
282
23
225
45
11
128
48
773
558
892
398
1,629
780
NA
Poliomyelitis
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0.0
Rubella
0
3
0
0
0
1
0
1
5
12
79
123
54
294
0.0
Rubella - congenital
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
1
0.0
Tetanus
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
1
2
3
3
0.5
Vectorborne diseases
Arbovirus infection NEC
0
2
0
16
0
0
0
0
18
17
2
5
55
42
3.3
Barmah Forest virus infection
0
57
1
103
0
0
0
2
163
762
106
106
1,204
630
1.5
Dengue
1
7
0
17
1
0
4
2
32
262
39
36
640
201
0.9
Japanese encephalitis
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
3
NA
Kunjin virus
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
5
0
0
17
2
NA
Malaria
5
24
5
55
6
4
16
11
126
157
83
160
463
559
0.8
Murray Valley encephalitis
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
5
0.0
Ross River virus infection
0
34
0
160
2
0
0
16
212
2,351
101
186
3,146
2,845
1.1
Zoonoses
Anthrax
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0.0
Australian bat lyssavirus
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
NA
Brucellosis
0
0
0
3
0
0
1
0
4
7
8
11
15
25
0.4
Leptospirosis
0
8
0
10
0
0
0
2
20
28
18
35
95
181
0.6
Other lyssavirus (NEC)
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
NA
Ornithosis
0
24
2
0
0
0
28
0
54
37
96
35
117
87
1.5
Q fever
0
50
0
23
2
0
1
3
79
118
174
149
405
463
0.5
Other bacterial infections
Legionellosis
0
10
0
13
18
0
12
14
67
87
79
58
240
243
1.2
Leprosy
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
1
3
3
0.0
Meningococcal infection
3
78
4
43
10
3
44
18
203
104
249
229
395
465
0.9
Tuberculosis
1
60
7
12
12
1
80
16
189
175
225
257
578
765
0.7
Total
516
6,567
1,169
5,617
1,727
510
5,507
2,920
24,533
26,627
25,426
22,652
79,566
70,531
1.2

1. Totals comprise data from all States and Territories. Cumulative figures are subject to retrospective revision so there may be discrepancies between the number of new notifications and the increment in the cumulative figure from the previous period.
2. Not reported for NSW because it is only notifiable as 'foodborne disease' or 'gastroenteritis in an institution'.
3. Infections with Shiga-like toxin (verotoxin) producing E. coli (SLTEC/VTEC).
4. Northern Territory, Qld, SA , Vic and WA: includes gonococcal neonatal ophthalmia.
* Date of notification = a composite of three dates: (i) the true onset date from a clinician, if available, (ii) the date the laboratory test was ordered, or (iii) the date reported to the public health unit.
† Ratio = ratio of current month total to mean of last 5 years calculated as described above.
‡ Notifiable from January 2001 only.
NA Not calculated as only notifiable for under 5 years.
NDR No data received.
NN Not Notifiable
NEC Not Elsewhere Classified.
- Elsewhere Classified.


This article was published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence Volume 27 No 4, December 2003.

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