Communicable Diseases Surveillance - Tables NNDSS rates

This report published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence Volume 27, No 2, June 2003 contains an analysis and tables of monthly notifiable diseases and laboratory data, and quarterly surveillance reports.

Page last updated: 30 June 2003

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Table 3. Notification rates of diseases by state or territory, 1 January to 31 March 2003. (Rate per 100,000 population)

Disease
State or Territory Australia
ACT NSW NT Qld SA Tas Vic WA
Bloodborne diseases
Hepatitis B (incident)
0.0
1.1
10.1
1.1
0.3
1.7
2.9
2.5
1.7
Hepatitis B (unspecified)
19.9
42.1
NN
19.0
10.8
16.1
35.6
20.7
30.5
Hepatitis C (incident)
2.5
0.7
NN
NN
3.4
0.8
1.1
8.5
2.1
Hepatitis C (unspecified)
74.5
95.3
87.0
71.2
36.3
93.8
70.9
66.4
76.9
Hepatitis D
0.0
0.1
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.2
0.0
0.1
Hepatitis (NEC)
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Gastrointestinal diseases
Botulism
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
Campylobacterosis2
129.1
NN
190.2
127.5
223.3
136.0
128.6
106.1
137.2
Cryptosporidiosis
5.0
3.5
109.3
5.4
5.3
2.5
4.5
53.8
10.2
Haemolytic uraemic syndrome
0.0
0.1
2.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.2
0.0
0.1
Hepatitis A
2.5
2.3
36.4
2.1
0.5
1.7
2.0
1.7
2.3
Hepatitis E
0.0
0.1
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
Listeriosis
0.0
0.4
0.0
0.4
0.0
0.8
0.7
0.2
0.4
Salmonellosis
38.5
44.8
214.5
91.3
38.1
53.2
47.0
47.8
55.7
Shigellosis
3.7
1.2
93.1
2.6
2.9
0.8
1.5
5.4
3.0
SLTEC,VTEC3
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.2
3.9
0.0
0.2
0.0
0.4
Typhoid
0.0
0.2
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.8
0.9
0.6
0.4
Quarantinable diseases
Cholera
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
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
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
Sexually transmissible diseases
Chlamydial infection
131.6
105.7
795.1
202.7
123.5
116.6
126.0
192.9
146.6
Donovanosis
0.0
0.0
8.1
0.3
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.1
Gonococcal infection4
8.7
18.0
661.6
28.0
19.7
9.3
25.0
81.1
34.0
Syphilis5
1.2
13.4
149.7
3.9
1.6
5.1
7.5
5.6
9.4
Vaccine preventable diseases
Diphtheria
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
Haemophilus influenzae type b
0.0
0.1
0.0
0.1
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
Laboratory-confirmed influenza
3.7
2.9
2.0
1.8
0.8
0.0
0.3
2.1
1.8
Measles
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.4
0.3
0.0
1.3
0.0
0.4
Mumps
0.0
0.7
0.0
0.2
0.5
0.0
0.0
0.6
0.4
Pertussis
14.9
22.8
8.1
24.2
11.3
17.7
10.5
10.1
17.5
Pneumococcal disease - invasive
9.9
5.2
22.3
4.7
8.1
5.1
6.0
5.4
5.8
Rubella6
0.0
0.7
0.0
2.5
0.0
0.0
0.2
0.4
0.8
Tetanus
0.0
0.1
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
Vectorborne diseases
Arbovirus infection NEC
0.0
0.4
0.0
1.9
0.0
0.0
0.3
0.0
0.6
Barmah Forest virus infection
1.2
4.3
18.2
19.8
0.3
0.0
0.3
1.2
5.6
Dengue
2.5
1.7
8.1
30.8
0.5
0.0
0.2
2.1
6.8
Japanese encephalitis
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
Kunjin virus infection
-
0.0
0.0
0.4
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.1
Malaria
5.0
2.7
28.3
8.4
0.8
1.7
1.6
1.9
3.5
Murray Valley encephalitis
-
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
Ross River virus infection
0.0
3.2
204.4
38.6
2.1
1.7
0.2
8.9
11.6
Zoonoses
Anthrax
0.0
0.0
0.0
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
Brucellosis
0.0
0.1
0.0
0.3
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.1
Leptospirosis
0.0
1.1
0.0
2.9
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.9
Other lyssavirus
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
Ornithosis
0.0
0.4
0.0
0.1
0.0
0.0
1.3
0.0
0.5
Q fever
1.2
6.8
2.0
7.7
0.5
0.0
0.5
0.8
4.0
Other bacterial infections
Legionellosis
0.0
1.1
4.0
0.8
2.6
0.8
2.5
2.9
1.7
Leprosy
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.1
0.0
0.0
Invasive meningococcal infection
1.2
1.7
2.0
1.7
1.6
1.7
2.0
1.7
1.7
Tuberculosis
7.4
4.0
10.1
0.9
2.6
0.8
4.9
2.3
3.4

1. Rates are subject to retrospective revision.
2. Not reported for New South Wales because it is only notifiable as 'foodborne disease' or 'gastroenteritis in an institution'.
3. Infections with Shiga-like toxin (verotoxin) producing E. coli (SLTEC/VTEC).
4. Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia , Victoria and Western Australia: includes gonococcal neonatal ophthalmia.
5. Includes congenital syphilis.
6. Includes congenital rubella.
NN Not notifiable.
NEC Not elsewhere classified.
- Elsewhere classified.


This article was published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence Volume 27, No 2, June 2003.

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