Communicable Diseases Surveillance - Tables: National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System 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 the notifications for the period 1 April to 30 June 2011.

Page last updated: 17 December 2011

Table 2: Notifications of diseases received by state and territory health authorities, 1 April to 30 June 2011, by date of diagnosis

  State or territory Total this quarter 2011 Total last quarter 2011 Total this quarter 2010 Last 5 years mean this quarter Ratio Year to date 2011 Last 5 years YTD mean
Disease
 ACT NSW NT Qld SA Tas Vic WA
Bloodborne diseases
Hepatitis (NEC)
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0.0
0.0
0
0.2
Hepatitis B (newly acquired)*
1
7
0
11
1
6
10
6
42
48
56
69.8
0.6
90
135.8
Hepatitis B (unspecified)†
16
597
51
239
80
18
484
172
1,657
1,742
1,842
1,662.2
1.0
3,388
3,379.8
Hepatitis C (newly acquired)*,‡
2
9
0
NN
9
10
5
34
69
108
101
97.4
0.7
177
196.0
Hepatitis C (unspecified)†
49
772
52
607
102
47
600
249
2,478
2,597
2,995
2,818.2
0.9
5,056
5,816.8
Hepatitis D
0
0
0
0
0
0
7
2
9
11
7
9.6
0.9
20
18.8
Gastrointestinal diseases
Botulism
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0.0
0.0
1
0.4
Campylobacteriosis§
94
NN
47
1,253
451
180
1,514
485
4,024
4,939
3,347
3,586.0
1.1
8,895
7,898.8
Cryptosporidiosis
0
106
9
120
48
8
74
106
471
638
399
717.6
0.7
1,104
2,073.4
Haemolytic uraemic syndrome
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
4
1
3.4
0.3
5
8.6
Hepatitis A
0
13
0
8
1
0
6
3
31
45
49
81.4
0.4
75
162.8
Hepatitis E
0
7
0
1
0
0
0
0
8
16
11
8.4
1.0
24
19.4
Listeriosis
0
6
0
2
2
0
8
1
19
19
13
12.2
1.6
38
38.6
STEC, VTEC||
0
3
1
2
6
1
1
2
16
19
12
17.0
0.9
35
50.8
Salmonellosis
13
688
90
686
211
33
574
264
2,559
4,807
2,893
2,262.0
1.1
7,329
5,647.2
Shigellosis
2
27
12
15
7
0
18
19
100
164
125
149.6
0.7
262
340.0
Typhoid
0
6
1
2
1
1
11
2
24
57
29
22.8
1.1
81
55.0
Quarantinable diseases
Cholera
0
0
0
4
0
0
0
0
4
1
0
0.4
10.0
5
1.2
Highly pathogenic avian influenza in humans
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
Severe acute respiratory syndrome
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
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
2
0
0
0
0
2
0
0
0.0
0.0
2
0.0
Sexually transmissible infections
Chlamydial infection¶,**
318
5,091
652
4,684
1,276
412
4,714
3,063
20,210
20,824
18,844
15,094.2
1.3
40,927
30,071.6
Donovanosis
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1.2
0.0
0
1.8
Gonococcal infection**
34
663
513
757
122
6
554
443
3,092
2,966
2,570
2,288.2
1.4
6,037
4,474.4
Syphilis < 2 years duration**
2
97
8
66
17
0
61
41
292
368
291
321.4
0.9
657
628.8
Syphilis > 2 years or unspecified duration**
5
58
20
43
NDP
3
152
14
295
325
316
333.4
0.9
619
666.8
Syphilis – congenital**
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
4
1
2.2
0.0
4
3.6
Vaccine preventable diseases
Diphtheria
0
0
1
3
0
0
0
0
4
0
0
0.0
0.0
4
0.0
Haemophilus influenzae type b
0
2
1
1
0
0
1
0
5
3
6
6.2
0.8
8
10.2
Influenza (laboratory confirmed)
38
900
34
1,674
931
77
332
122
4,108
2,674
786
3,537.6
1.2
6,756
3,918.6
Measles
0
11
2
5
0
0
8
4
30
80
15
29.8
1.0
109
59.0
Mumps
0
16
0
8
3
1
5
5
38
39
26
62.2
0.6
77
123.4
Pertussis
203
2,893
84
1,971
564
31
1,868
399
8,013
10,740
5,400
3,707.0
2.2
18,652
7,449.0
Pneumococcal disease (invasive)
7
145
33
105
45
5
138
70
548
224
422
408.8
1.3
769
612.2
Poliomyelitis
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0.0
0.0
0
0.0
Rubella
0
5
0
2
1
0
1
6
15
22
11
12.0
1.3
37
20.8
Rubella – congenital
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0.4
0.0
0
0.4
Tetanus
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
1
2
1
0
0.2
10.0
3
1.8
Varicella zoster (chickenpox)††
2
NN
20
51
84
9
151
83
400
376
351
318.0
1.3
773
612.6
Varicella zoster (shingles)††
4
NN
46
9
404
44
199
190
896
1,013
696
500.2
1.8
1,903
1,037.4
Varicella zoster (unspecified)††
22
NN
0
926
12
21
551
254
1,786
1,794
1,660
1,216.6
1.5
3,564
2,497.6
Vectorborne diseases
Arbovirus infection (NEC)
0
0
0
4
0
0
2
0
6
4
0
3.6
1.7
10
10.2
Barmah Forest virus infection
0
95
24
174
23
1
34
39
390
841
382
488.2
0.8
1,228
1,092.4
Dengue virus infection
5
18
3
21
2
1
17
53
120
361
264
138.6
0.9
479
434.2
Japanese encephalitis virus infection
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0.0
0.0
0
0.0
Kunjin virus infection‡‡
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
1
0.6
1.7
1
1.4
Malaria
2
17
3
30
1
2
19
14
88
120
94
143.4
0.6
207
285.6
Murray Valley encephalitis virus infection‡‡
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
6
7
8
0
0.8
8.8
15
1.4
Ross River virus infection
2
164
42
331
85
1
187
172
984
3,071
1,873
1,394.2
0.7
4,033
3,516.4
Zoonoses
Anthrax
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0.0
0.0
0
0.6
Australian bat lyssavirus
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0.0
0.0
0
0.0
Brucellosis
0
1
0
8
0
0
1
1
11
12
4
7.8
1.4
23
17.4
Leptospirosis
0
13
0
32
1
0
4
1
51
124
44
41.2
1.2
175
87.2
Lyssavirus (NEC)
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0.0
0.0
0
0.0
Ornithosis
0
4
0
0
0
0
12
1
17
24
9
24.8
0.7
40
48.6
Q fever
1
26
1
37
2
0
4
1
72
82
98
90.4
0.8
154
189.6
Tularaemia
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0.0
0.0
1
0.0
Other bacterial infections
Legionellosis
1
32
0
11
10
1
20
25
100
81
83
83.6
1.2
180
156.8
Leprosy
0
1
0
0
0
0
2
0
3
0
2
2.2
1.4
3
4.8
Meningococcal infection§§
1
13
0
15
4
3
16
5
57
57
56
61.6
0.9
114
112.6
Tuberculosis
4
89
7
63
17
3
58
25
266
292
286
264.8
1.0
555
552.4
Total
828
12,598
1,758
13,984
4,523
925
12,423
6,383
53,422
61,746
46,471
114,704

* Newly acquired hepatitis includes cases where the infection was determined to be acquired within 24 months prior to diagnosis.

† Unspecified hepatitis and syphilis includes cases where the duration of infection could not be determined.

‡ In Queensland, includes incident hepatitis cases.

§ Not reported for New South Wales where it is only notifiable as ‘foodborne disease’ or ‘gastroenteritis in an institution’.

|| Infections with Shiga-like toxin (verotoxin) producing Escherichia coli (STEC/VTEC).

¶ Includes Chlamydia trachomatis identified from cervical, rectal, urine, urethral, throat and eye samples, except for South Australia, which reports only genital tract specimens. The Northern Territory and Western Australia, exclude ocular infections.

** In the national case definitions for chlamydial, gonococcal and syphilis infections the mode of transmission cannot be inferred from the site of infection. Transmission (especially in children) may be by a non-sexual mode (e.g. perinatal infections, epidemic gonococcal conjunctivitis).

†† Ratio of current quarter total to the mean of last 5 years for the same quarter. Ratios for varicella zoster (chickenpox), varicella zoster (shingles) and varicella zoster (unspecified) are based on 4 years of data.

‡‡ In the Australian Capital Territory, Murray Valley encephalitis virus infection and Kunjin virus infection are combined under Murray Valley encephalitis virus infection.

§§ Only invasive meningococcal disease is nationally notifiable. However, New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and South Australia also report conjunctival cases.

NN Not notifiable.

NEC Not elsewhere classified.

NDP No data provided.

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