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 April to 30 June 2007.

Page last updated: 05 October 2007

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A summary of diseases currently being reported by each jurisdiction is provided in Table 1. There were 33,300 notifications to the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS) with a diagnosis date between 1 April and 30 June 2007 (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
Campylobacteriosis All jurisdictions except NSW
Cryptosporidiosis All jurisdictions
Haemolytic uraemic syndrome All jurisdictions
Hepatitis A All jurisdictions
Hepatitis E All jurisdictions
Listeriosis All jurisdictions
Salmonellosis 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 infections (chickenpox) All jurisdictions except NSW
Varicella infections (unspecified) All jurisdictions except NSW
Varicella zoster infections All jurisdictions except NSW
Vectorborne diseases
Barmah Forest virus infection All jurisdictions
Flavivirus infection (NEC)† All jurisdictions
Dengue 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
Lyssaviruses 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.
† Flavivirus (NEC) replaced Arbovirus (NEC) from 1 January 2004.

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