There were 27,389 notifications to the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS) with a notification date between 1 July to 30 September 2004 (Table 2).

Table 2. Notifications of diseases received by State and Territory health authorities for the period 1 July to 30 September 2004, by date of onset*

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Disease	ACT	NSW	NT	Qld	SA	Tas	Vic	WA	Total 3rd quarter 20041	Total 2nd quarter 2004	Total 3rd quarter 2003	Last 5 years mean 3rd quarter	Year to date 2004	Last 5 years YTD mean	Ratio†
Bloodborne diseases
Hepatitis B (incident)	1	3	2	11	3	6	35	14	75	71	86	97	216	288	0.8
Hepatitis B (unspecified)	15	998	NN	204	74	9	370	92	1,762	2,114	1,440	1,820	5,331	5,278	1.0
Hepatitis C (incident)	1	0	NN	NN	13	1	20	38	73	53	125	115	206	362	0.6
Hepatitis C (unspecified)	46	1,465	54	739	140	91	739	276	3,550	3,453	3,569	4,289	10,558	12,988	0.8
Hepatitis D	0	5	0	4	0	0	1	0	10	8	10	8	22	18	1.2
Gastrointestinal diseases
Botulism	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0
Campylobacterosis2	80	NN	56	1,079	532	122	1,436	441	3,746	3,010	3,333	3,493	11,022	10,364	1.1
Cryptosporidiosis‡	1	21	21	67	23	11	75	21	240	435	190	220	1,190	1,714	0.7
Haemolytic uraemic syndrome	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	3	3	3	2	9	9	1.0
Hepatitis A	1	28	0	7	2	0	21	14	73	76	91	172	255	572	0.4
Hepatitis E	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	8	5	2	21	9	2.4
Listeriosis	1	5	0	1	2	0	4	3	16	21	12	13	53	49	1.1
Salmonellosis (NEC)	15	264	69	365	75	15	230	129	1,162	1,978	1,019	1,062	5,868	5,343	1.1
Shigellosis	0	16	16	11	4	0	22	15	84	147	94	109	384	394	1.0
SLTEC,VTEC3	0	0	0	2	8	0	0	0	10	8	9	9	30	36	0.8
Typhoid	0	4	0	3	1	0	8	0	16	15	13	15	59	50	1.2
Quarantinable diseases
Cholera	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	0	3	2	0	1	6	3	2.3
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
Smallpox	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0
Tularemia	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 transmissible infections
Chlamydia	147	2,422	356	2,250	516	153	1,818	1,015	8,677	8,899	7,710	5,413	26,678	15,801	1.7
Donovanosis	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	1	3	1	3	4	6	15	0.4
Gonococcal infection4	6	254	337	361	48	7	265	318	1,596	1,902	1,607	1,492	5,248	4,682	1.1
Syphilis (unspecified)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	57	118	223	123	646	0.2
Syphilis <  two years duration	2	60	21	19	4	0	17	8	131	131	129	108	412	311	1.3
Syphilis > two years duration	0	277	32	47	0	0	91	14	461	397	242	239	1,276	753	1.7
Syphilis - congenital	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	3	3	4	3	8	7	1.1
Vaccine preventable diseases
Diphtheria	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0
Haemophilus influenzae type b	0	1	1	2	1	0	1	0	6	3	6	6	13	22	0.6
Influenza (laboratory confirmed)‡	0	423	19	455	3	2	112	68	1,082	161	3,102	2,233	1,350	2,629	0.5
Measles	0	2	0	0	3	0	5	2	12	6	26	24	29	96	0.3
Mumps	1	14	0	3	0	0	1	3	22	21	16	35	67	104	0.6
Pertussis	25	1,097	0	265	250	10	162	779	2,588	1,205	1,517	1,772	4,891	4,045	1.2
Pneumococcal disease (invasive)‡	17	341	33	244	48	18	135	85	921	612	796	774	1,861	1,542	1.2
Poliomyelitis	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0
Rubella	0	4	0	3	0	0	0	0	7	11	6	71	24	177	0.1
Rubella - congenital	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2.5
Tetanus	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	4	3	1.4
Vectorborne diseases
Barmah forest virus infection	1	66	5	95	3	0	3	13	186	324	167	124	829	787	1.1
Dengue	1	7	3	13	1	0	2	2	29	64	34	29	330	257	1.3
Flavivirus infection NEC	0	4	0	10	0	0	1	0	15	12	20	7	83	39	2.1
Japanese encephalitis‡	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0.0
Kunjin virus‡	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	7	7	0.0
Malaria	2	31	4	68	3	2	17	11	138	149	132	162	411	542	0.8
Murray Valley encephalitis‡	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	2	0.6
Ross River virus infection	0	39	17	57	3	1	3	19	139	1,382	214	189	3,958	3,001	1.3
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	0.0
Brucellosis	0	0	0	10	0	0	1	0	11	4	4	10	21	22	1.0
Leptospirosis	0	9	0	19	0	0	1	2	31	56	27	32	154	175	0.9
Lyssavirus unspecified‡	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0
Ornithosis	0	25	0	1	0	0	21	0	47	57	67	44	174	106	1.6
Q fever	0	55	0	18	6	0	9	1	89	110	88	133	304	453	0.7
Other bacterial infections
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
Legionellosis	0	12	1	13	9	0	18	11	64	92	60	62	239	254	0.9
Leprosy	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	3	3	0.9
Meningococcal infection	4	42	1	28	4	9	21	16	125	117	208	229	335	471	0.7
Tuberculosis	2	70	6	11	0	4	70	16	179	205	246	252	613	726	0.8
Total	369	8,069	1,057	6,489	1,780	461	5,737	3,427	27,389	27,386	26,549	25,099	84,684	75,153	1.1

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 from New South Wales where it is only notifiable as 'foodborne disease' or 'gastroenteritis in an institution'.
3. Infections with shiga-like toxin (verotoxin) producing Escherichia coli (SLTEC/VTEC).
* Date of onset= the true date of onset. If this is not available, the 'date of onset' is equivalent to the earliest of two dates: (i) specimen collection date or (ii) the date of notification to a public health unit. Hepatitis B and C unspecified were analysed by date of notification.
† Ratio= ratio of current quarter total to the mean of last 5 years for the same quarter.
‡ Notifiable from January 2001. Ratio and mean calculations are based on the last three years.
NN Not notifiable.
NEC Not elsewhere classified.

This table was published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence Vol 28 No 4, December 2004.