Annual report of National Arbovirus and Malaria Advisory Committee 2010-11

Commun Dis Intell 2013;37(1):E1-E20

Change in authorship

The corrected authorship is as follows:

Katrina Knope, Peter Whelan, David Smith, Cheryl Johansen, Rod Moran, Stephen Doggett, Angus Sly, Michaela Hobby, Nina Kurucz, Phil Wright, Jay Nicholson and the National Arbovirus and Malaria Advisory Committee

And the corrected author details are:

Katrina Knope¹
Peter Whelan²
David Smith³
Cheryl Johansen⁴
Rod Moran⁵
Stephen Doggett⁶
Angus Sly⁷
Michaela Hobby⁸
Phil Wright¹
Jay Nicholson⁴
The National Arbovirus and Malaria Advisory Committee (see acknowledgement)

1. Zoonoses, Foodborne and Emerging Infectious Diseases Section Health Emergency Management Branch Office of Health Protection Department of Health Canberra ACT
2. Medical Entomology, Centre for Disease Control Health Protection Division, Northern Territory Department of Health Building 19, Royal Darwin Hospital. Casuarina NT 0811
3. Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases; PathWest QEII Medical Centre. School of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Western Australia
4. Arbovirus Surveillance and Research Laboratory School of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences University of Western Australia, M502
5. No affiliation (retired)
6. New South Wales Arbovirus Surveillance & Mosquito Monitoring Program Department of Medical Entomology Institute for Clinical Pathology and Medical Research Westmead Hospital, Sydney NSW
7. Operational Science Program (OSP) Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Border Compliance Division 42-44 Qantas Drive, Eagle Farm, Brisbane, QLD 4009
8. Health Protection, Public Health SA Health Government of South Australia

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Annual immunisation coverage report, 2010

Commun Dis Intell 2013;37(1):E21-E39

Tables 2, 3 and 4

The corrected tables appear below. In the previous version, the data was under incorrect state and territory headings.

Table 2: Percentage of children in 2010 immunised at 12 months of age, by vaccine and state/territory*

	Jurisdiction
Vaccine	ACT	NSW	NT	Qld	SA	Tas	Vic	WA	Australia
* For the birth cohort born in 2009
Total number of children	4,978	97,303	3,853	61,963	19,563	6,448	71,581	31,105	296,794
Diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (%)	94.6	92.2	90.9	92.3	92.2	92.3	92.9	90.8	92.3
Poliomyelitis (%)	94.5	92.2	90.9	92.2	92.2	92.3	92.8	90.8	92.2
Haemophilus influenzae type b (%)	94.4	92.0	91.3	92.1	92.0	92.2	92.6	90.6	92.1
Hepatitis B (%)	93.7	91.8	90.7	91.9	91.7	92.1	92.3	90.3	91.8
Rotavirus (%)	88.0	86.4	81.6	83.2	84.6	86.1	83.7	85.6	84.7
7vPCV (%)	93.6	91.5	89.4	91.7	91.5	91.6	92.1	89.8	91.5
Fully immunised (%)	93.6	91.7	90.2	91.7	91.6	92.0	92.1	90.1	91.6
Fully immunised (incl rotavirus & 7vPCV) (%)	86.7	84.1	78.4	86.1	87.3	84.0	86.5	83.0	85.2

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Table 3: Percentage of children in 2010 immunised at 24 months of age, by vaccine and state/territory*

Vaccine	Jurisdiction
	ACT	NSW	NT	Qld	SA	Tas	Vic	WA	Australia
* For the birth cohort born in 2008
Total number of children	4,923	98,729	3,711	63,062	19,779	6,609	72,248	31,499	300,560
Diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (%)	96.0	94.6	95.1	94.5	94.5	95.3	95.4	93.4	94.7
Poliomyelitis (%)	95.9	94.6	95.0	94.4	94.5	95.3	95.4	93.3	94.6
Haemophilus influenzae type b (%)	95.6	94.8	94.0	94.2	94.2	95.3	95.1	93.2	94.6
Hepatitis B (%)	95.2	94.1	94.6	93.9	94.0	95.1	94.7	92.5	94.1
Measles, mumps, rubella (%)	94.8	93.8	95.0	93.9	93.8	94.9	94.6	92.5	93.9
Varicella (%)	87.5	82.1	84.9	86.4	81.9	81.7	82.7	79.4	83.0
MenC (%)	94.4	93.4	94.9	93.5	93.7	94.8	94.3	91.9	93.6
Fully immunised (%)	93.3	92.1	92.4	92.2	92.1	93.6	92.9	90.0	92.1
Fully immunised (incl varicella & MenC) (%)	85.6	80.0	82.5	84.8	80.2	80.2	80.9	77.2	81.1

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Table 4: Percentage of children in 2010 immunised at 60 months years of age, by vaccine and state/territory*

Vaccine	State or territory								Australia
	ACT	NSW	NT	Qld	SA	Tas	Vic	WA
Total number of children	4,628	93,742	3,576	60,695	18,699	6,263	68,128	29,601	285,332
Diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (%)	91.3	89.5	87.5	90.3	87.6	91.9	91.2	86.6	89.7
Poliomyelitis (%)	91.5	89.4	87.4	90.3	87.6	91.9	91.3	86.7	89.7
Measles, mumps, rubella (%)	91.1	89.3	87.1	90.2	87.4	92.0	91.1	86.5	89.6
Fully immunised (%)	90.7	88.9	86.6	89.7	87.0	91.5	90.7	85.9	89.1

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Annual report of the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System, 2010

Commun Dis Intell 2012;36(1):E1-E69

Table 6

The corrected part of the table appears below. In the previous version, the numbers in the table for zoonoses were listed against incorrect diseases within the zoonotic disease group.

Table 6 cont’d: Notifications and notification rate for communicable diseases, Australia, 2005 to 2010, (per 100,000 population)

Disease	Number of notifications						5 year mean	Ratio	Notification rate per 100,000 population
	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010			2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010
Zoonoses
Anthrax	0	1	1	0	0	1	0.4	2.5	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	0.0	0.0	0.0
Brucellosis	41	50	37	45	32	21	41.0	0.5	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.1
Leptospirosis	129	145	108	112	146	131	128.0	1.0	0.6	0.7	0.5	0.5	0.7	0.6
Lyssavirus (NEC)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Ornithosis	164	165	93	102	65	56	117.8	0.5	0.8	0.8	0.4	0.5	0.3	0.3
Q fever	352	411	449	376	310	323	379.6	0.9	1.7	2.0	2.1	1.7	1.4	1.4
Tularaemia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0