Communicable Diseases Surveillance - Tables: NNDSS notifications

The National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System collates data from Australian states and territories. Data are published on the Department of Health and Ageing's website and quarterly data are published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence. This page contains notifications for the period 1 April to 30 June 2006.

Page last updated: 30 September 2006

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Table 2. Notifications of diseases received by State and Territory health authorities in the period 1 April to 30 June 2006, by date of onset*

Disease
 State or territory Total 2nd qrt 2006† Total 1st qrt 2006 Total 2nd Qrt 2005 Last 5 years mean 2nd qrt year to date 2006 Last 5 years YTD mean Ratio‡
ACT NSW NT Qld SA Tas Vic WA
Bloodborne diseases
Hepatitis B (incident)
0
14
2
13
1
1
27
16
74
67
59
90.8
141
178.2
0.8
Hepatitis B (unspecified)
30
835
70
257
59
14
377
76
1,718
1,652
1,611
1,643.6
3,370
3,262.0
1.0
Hepatitis C (incident)
5
12
1
0
9
0
30
29
86
120
99
121.4
206
252.0
0.7
Hepatitis C (unspecified)
52
1,392
57
756
99
67
622
196
3,241
3,884
3,102
3,633.2
7,125
7,513.4
0.9
Hepatitis D
0
6
0
0
0
0
0
0
6
9
4
6.6
15
11.4
0.9
Gastrointestinal diseases
Botulism
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0.3
0
1.0
0.0
Campylobacterosis§
85
NN
63
919
473
119
1,242
383
3,284
3,636
3,530
3,417.8
6,920
7,466.2
1.0
Cryptosporidiosis||
36
182
12
203
66
8
370
42
919
1,510
828
525.6
2,429
1,514.2
1.7
Haemolytic uraemic syndrome
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
5
4
2.4
5
5.6
0.0
Hepatitis A
0
25
7
3
3
0
8
12
58
105
87
97.8
163
209.6
0.6
Hepatitis E
0
1
0
1
1
0
1
0
4
7
7
4.6
11
12.2
0.9
Listeriosis
0
5
0
0
0
0
1
1
7
25
14
17.0
32
34.2
0.4
Salmonellosis (NEC)
25
406
108
667
141
47
302
168
1,864
3,099
1,957
1,842.8
4,963
4,537.8
1.0
Shigellosis
1
16
33
23
7
1
20
31
132
188
180
140.0
320
314.0
0.9
SLTEC, VTEC
0
3
0
4
8
0
0
2
17
17
32
15.0
34
31.2
1.1
Typhoid
0
7
1
4
0
0
5
4
21
23
10
10.0
44
37.6
2.1
Quarantinable diseases
Cholera
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
1.0
0
2.0
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
Smallpox
0
0
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
0.0
Viral haemorrhagic fever (NEC)
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 infections
Chlamydial infection**
199
2,835
515
2,811
805
215
2,459
1,353
11,192
11,698
10,909
7,730.6
22,890
15,368.0
1.4
Donovanosis
0
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
2
0
2
4.0
2
9.6
0.5
Gonococcal infection
7
398
512
387
191
10
338
451
2,294
2,346
2,059
1,794.8
4,640
3,571.2
1.3
Syphilis all
1
233
90
91
15
6
153
21
610
610
590
538.4
1,227
621.6
1.3
Syphilis < 2 years*
0
21
42
38
1
0
62
8
172
158
161
154.0
330
286.5
1.1
Syphilis > 2 years or unspecified duration*
1
212
48
53
14
6
91
13
438
452
429
400.0
897
745.5
1.1
Syphilis - congenital
0
2
3
0
0
0
0
0
5
3
6
4.8
8
8.0
1.0
Vaccine preventable diseases
Diphtheria
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0.0
0
0.2
0.0
Haemophilus influenzae type b
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
2
1
7.2
3
12.4
0.1
Influenza (laboratory confirmed)||
8
57
5
151
8
2
111
27
369
179
796
378.0
548
530.8
1.0
Measles
1
46
0
1
8
11
4
25
96
16
2
11.6
112
35.0
8.3
Mumps
0
50
1
22
4
0
6
5
88
42
74
34.6
130
64.2
2.5
Pertussis
77
1,143
21
486
484
5
220
46
2,482
2,418
2,556
1,496.8
4,900
3,000.0
1.7
Pneumococcal disease (invasive)||
7
166
10
62
26
6
74
38
389
208
459
543.4
597
830.2
0.7
Poliomyelitis
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0.0
0
0.0
0.0
Rubella
0
11
0
4
0
0
2
0
17
7
14
28.6
24
60.8
0.6
Rubella - congenital
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0.2
0
0.6
0.0
Tetanus
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
0.6
1
2.4
0.0
Vectorborne diseases
Barmah Forest virus infection
1
218
34
288
45
0
10
39
635
731
438
466.0
1,366
789.2
1.4
Dengue
2
10
3
35
3
0
1
4
58
60
43
92.2
118
247.4
0.6
Flavivirus infection (NEC)
0
0
0
9
0
0
0
0
9
21
8
16.2
30
37.8
0.6
Japanese encephalitis virus||
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0.2
0
0.4
0.0
Kunjin virus
0
0
0
3
0
0
0
1
4
1
0
1.4
5
6.4
2.9
Malaria
4
29
18
91
6
10
28
22
208
215
168
152.2
423
361.8
1.4
Murray Valley encephalitis virus||
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
0
0
0.0
1
2.0
0.0
Ross River virus infection
0
294
28
574
28
5
14
154
1,097
3,345
556
1,200.2
4,442
2,469.2
0.9
Zoonoses
Anthrax||
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0.0
1
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
4
0
0
1
0
5
18
4
6.0
23
14.4
0.8
Leptospirosis
0
5
0
52
1
0
0
0
58
49
36
48.0
107
111.0
1.2
Lyssavirus (NEC)||
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0.0
0
0.0
0.0
Ornithosis
1
19
0
1
0
0
14
1
36
44
53
49.2
80
89.8
0.7
Q fever
1
33
2
25
6
0
3
0
70
97
116
148.4
167
307.8
0.5
Other bacterial infections
Legionellosis
0
24
2
8
13
1
13
11
72
98
77
89.2
170
166.2
0.8
Leprosy
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
1
1
1.2
2
4.6
0.8
Meningococcal infection††
0
18
2
16
6
2
21
4
69
74
74
124.6
143
227.6
0.6
Tuberculosis
3
98
6
34
15
4
76
34
270
293
268
239.0
563
478.6
1.1
Total
553
8,594
1,637
8,764
2,874
553
6,553
3,198
32,726
38,116
30,839
26,757.5
70,842
55,233.0
1.2

* Date of onset = the true onset. If this is not available, the ‘date of onset’ is equivalent to the earliest of two dates: (i) specimen date of collection, or (ii) the date of notification to the public health unit. Hepatitis B and C unspecified were analysed by the date of notification.
† 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.
‡ Ratio = ratio of current quarter total to the mean of last 5 years for the same quarter.
§ Not reported for New South Wales where it is only notifiable as ‘foodborne disease’ or ‘gastroenteritis in an institution’.
|| Notifiable from January 2001 only. Ratio and mean calculations are based on the last five years.
¶ Infections with Shiga-like toxin (verotoxin) producing Escherichia coli (SLTEC/VTEC).
** Includes Chlamydia trachomatis identified from cervical, rectal, urine, urethral, throat and eye samples, except for South Australia which reports only genital tract specimens, Northern Territory which excludes ocular specimens, and Western Australia which excludes ocular and perinatal infections.
† † Only invasive meningococcal disease is nationally notifiable. However, New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and South Australia also report conjunctival cases.
Note Ratios for Syphilis < 2 years; syphilis >2 years or unspecified duration based on 2 years data
NN Not notifiable.
NEC Not elsewhere classified.

 

This report was published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence Vol 30 No 3, September 2006.

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