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Table 4. Notification rates of diseases by State or Territory, 1 April to 30 June 2003. (Rate per 100,000 population)

Disease1	State or Territory								Australia
	ACT	NSW	NT	Qld	SA	Tas	Vic	WA
Bloodborne diseases
Hepatitis B (incident)	0.0	0.9	12.1	0.8	0.8	5.1	2.9	2.1	1.7
Hepatitis B (unspecified)	18.6	37.9	NN	22.0	15.2	11.0	31.3	24.6	29.1
Hepatitis C (incident)	2.5	0.9	NN	NN	3.2	1.7	1.7	6.2	2.1
Hepatitis C (unspecified)	68.3	81.8	87.0	59.0	38.6	84.5	73.4	58.1	69.6
Hepatitis D	0.0	0.2	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.1
Hepatitis E	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Hepatitis (NEC)	0.0	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	0.3	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Campylobacterosis2	117.9	NN	153.8	93.6	166.3	120.8	89.4	81.5	101.2
Cryptosporidiosis	5.0	2.6	36.4	5.0	6.6	1.7	3.4	23.2	5.9
Haemolytic uraemic syndrome	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.2	0.0
Hepatitis A	0.0	0.9	10.1	1.9	1.1	7.6	1.6	3.1	1.7
Hepatitis E	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Listeriosis	0.0	0.6	0.0	0.0	0.3	0.0	0.6	0.2	0.4
Salmonellosis	24.8	23.2	186.1	55.2	27.6	25.3	21.7	32.0	31.8
Shigellosis	0.0	0.6	66.8	0.8	1.6	0.8	1.2	5.8	2.0
SLTEC,VTEC3	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1	2.4	0.0	0.0	0.2	0.2
Typhoid	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.3	0.0	0.2	0.4	0.1
Quarantinable diseases
Cholera	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Plague	0.0	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	0.0
Viral haemorrhagic fever	0.0	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	0.0
Sexually transmissible
Chlamydial infection	171.3	91.7	687.9	196.8	123.0	133.5	129.0	178.0	140.0
Donovanosis	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.2	0.1
Gonococcal infection4	8.7	17.2	756.7	25.6	20.2	2.5	24.9	59.3	32.0
Syphilis5	6.2	13.4	127.5	3.3	0.5	1.7	6.1	5.2	8.6
Vaccine preventable diseases
Diphtheria	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Haemophilus influenzae type b	0.0	0.2	2.0	0.0	0.3	0.8	0.0	0.0	0.1
Influenza	0.0	2.5	4.0	5.0	4.2	0.0	0.6	1.7	2.5
Measles	0.0	0.3	0.0	0.1	0.5	0.0	1.5	0.0	0.5
Mumps	0.0	0.3	0.0	0.3	0.5	0.0	0.1	0.2	0.2
Pertussis	54.6	18.7	0.0	13.9	12.3	10.1	7.9	5.0	13.5
Pneumococcal disease	17.4	9.6	30.3	13.5	10.5	10.1	8.2	6.6	10.1
Poliomyelitis	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Rubella6	0.0	0.4	0.0	0.4	0.3	0.0	0.0	0.2	0.3
Tetanus	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Vectorborne diseases
Arbovirus infection NEC	0.0	0.1	0.0	2.4	0.0	0.0	0.2	0.0	0.5
Barmah Forest virus infection	0.0	13.0	6.1	52.9	0.0	0.0	0.2	0.2	14.5
Dengue	2.5	1.0	18.2	22.6	0.5	0.0	0.2	0.8	5.0
Japanese encephalitis	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Kunjin virus infection	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.5	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1
Malaria	9.9	1.2	34.4	6.4	2.6	2.5	0.7	4.3	3.0
Murray Valley encephalitis	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Ross River virus infection	0.0	17.4	44.5	202.8	1.3	0.0	0.1	12.2	46.0
Zoonoses
Anthrax	0.0	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	0.0	0.0
Brucellosis	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.6	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1
Leptospirosis	0.0	0.4	2.0	1.6	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.2	0.5
Other lyssavirus (NEC)	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Ornithosis	0.0	0.7	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.3	0.2	0.6
Q fever	0.0	3.4	0.0	3.2	1.3	0.0	0.2	1.0	2.0
Other bacterial infections
Legionellosis	1.2	1.0	0.0	1.1	2.4	0.0	2.2	1.7	1.5
Leprosy	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0
Meningococcal infection	2.5	2.3	6.1	2.3	1.1	1.7	1.9	1.7	2.0
Tuberculosis	1.2	2.4	8.1	0.5	2.1	0.0	2.8	2.5	2.1

1. Rates are subject to retrospective revision.

2. Not reported for New South Wales 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, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria and Western Australia: includes gonococcal neonatal ophthalmia.

5. Includes congenital syphilis.

6. Includes congenital rubella.

NN Not Notifiable.

NEC Not Elsewhere Classified.

-- Elsewhere Classified.

This article was published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence Volume 27, No 3, September 2003.