Communicable Diseases Surveillance - Tables: National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System reporting jurisdictions

The National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System collates data from Australian states and territories. These data have been published on the Department of Health and Ageing's website and quarterly data are published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence. This page contains a table on notifiable diseases reported from each state or territory for the reporting period 1 October to 31 December 2006.

Page last updated: 13 April 2007

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A summary of diseases currently being reported by each jurisdiction is provided in Table 1. There were 32,497 notifications to the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS) with a diagnosis date between 1 October and 31 December 2006 (Table 2). The annualised notification rate of diseases per 100,000 population for each state or territory is presented in Table 3.

Table 1. Reporting of notifiable diseases by jurisdiction

Disease
Data received from:
Bloodborne diseases
Hepatitis B (incident) All jurisdictions
Hepatitis B (unspecified) All jurisdictions
Hepatitis C (incident) All jurisdictions except Qld
Hepatitis C (unspecified) All jurisdictions
Hepatitis D All jurisdictions
Gastrointestinal diseases
Botulism All jurisdictions
Campylobacterosis All jurisdictions except NSW
Cryptosporidiosis All jurisdictions
Haemolytic uraemic syndrome All jurisdictions
Hepatitis A All jurisdictions
Hepatitis E All jurisdictions
Listeriosis All jurisdictions
Salmonellosis (NEC) All jurisdictions
Shigellosis All jurisdictions
SLTEC, VTEC All jurisdictions
Typhoid All jurisdictions
Quarantinable diseases
Cholera All jurisdictions
Plague All jurisdictions
Rabies All jurisdictions
Smallpox All jurisdictions
Tularemia All jurisdictions
Viral haemorrhagic fever All jurisdictions
Yellow fever All jurisdictions
Sexually transmissible infections
Chlamydial infection All jurisdictions
Donovanosis All jurisdictions
Gonococcal infection All jurisdictions
Syphilis—all All jurisdictions
  Syphilis < 2 years duration All jurisdictions
  Syphilis > 2 years or unspecified duration All jurisdictions
Syphilis—congenital All jurisdictions
Vaccine preventable diseases
Diphtheria All jurisdictions
Haemophilus influenzae type b All jurisdictions
Influenza (laboratory confirmed)* All jurisdictions
Measles All jurisdictions
Mumps All jurisdictions
Pertussis All jurisdictions
Pneumococcal disease (invasive) All jurisdictions
Poliomyelitis All jurisdictions
Rubella All jurisdictions
Rubella—congenital All jurisdictions
Tetanus All jurisdictions
Varicella Infection (chickenpox) All jurisdictions except NSW
Varicella Infection (unspecified) All jurisdictions except NSW
Varicella zoster infection All jurisdictions except NSW

Vectorborne diseases
Barmah Forest virus infection All jurisdictions
Dengue All jurisdictions
Flavivirus infection (NEC)† All jurisdictions
Japanese encephalitis virus All jurisdictions
Kunjin virus All jurisdictions
Malaria All jurisdictions
Murray Valley encephalitis virus All jurisdictions
Ross River virus infection All jurisdictions
Zoonoses
Anthrax All jurisdictions
Australian bat lyssavirus All jurisdictions
Brucellosis All jurisdictions
Leptospirosis All jurisdictions
Lyssavirus unspecified All jurisdictions
Ornithosis All jurisdictions
Q fever All jurisdictions
Other bacterial infections
Legionellosis All jurisdictions
Leprosy All jurisdictions
Meningococcal infection All jurisdictions
Tuberculosis All jurisdictions

* Laboratory confirmed influenza is not notifiable in South Australia but reports are forwarded to NNDSS.

&dagger Flavivirus (NEC) replaced Arbovirus (NEC) from 1 January 2004.

 

This report was published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence Vol 31 No 1, March 2007.

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