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Table 3. Notifications of diseases received by State and Territory health authorities in the period 1 April to 30 June 2003, by date of notification*

Disease	ACT	NSW	NT	Qld	SA	Tas	Vic	WA	Total 2nd qtr 20031	Total 1st qtr 20031	Total 2nd qtr 20021	Last 5 years mean 2nd qtr	Year to date 2003	Last 5 years YTD mean	Ratio†
Bloodborne diseases
Hepatitis B (incident)	0	15	6	7	3	6	35	10	82	84	83	92	166	126	0.9
Hepatitis B (unspecified)	15	631	NN	205	58	13	382	119	1,423	1,489	1,444	1,795	2,912	2,396	0.8
Hepatitis C (incident)	2	15	NN	NN	12	2	21	30	82	81	79	105	163	159	0.8
Hepatitis C (unspecified)	55	1,362	43	550	147	100	897	281	3,435	3,790	3,400	4,405	7,225	6,326	0.8
Hepatitis D	0	3	0	1	0	0	1	0	5	4	2	5	9	6	1.0
Hepatitis E	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0
Hepatitis (NEC)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0
Gastrointestinal diseases
Botulism	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	2	1.0
Campylobacterosis2	95	NN	76	873	633	143	1,093	394	3,307	4,482	3,696	3,100	7,789	4,738	1.1
Cryptosporidiosis	4	43	18	47	25	2	41	112	292	504	2,094	N/A	796	N/A	N/A
Haemolytic uraemic syndrome	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	5	2	3	7	6	0.7
Hepatitis A	0	15	5	18	4	9	19	15	85	116	137	302	201	456	0.3
Hepatitis E	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	5	2	4	0.0
Listeriosis	0	10	0	0	1	0	7	1	19	20	14	15	39	25	1.3
Salmonellosis	20	386	92	515	105	30	265	155	1,568	2,747	2,765	1,738	4,315	3,470	0.9
Shigellosis	0	10	33	7	6	1	15	28	100	149	136	142	249	221	0.7
SLTEC,VTEC3	0	0	0	1	9	0	0	1	11	20	16	8	31	19	1.3
Typhoid	0	0	0	1	1	0	2	2	6	19	29	12	25	29	0.5
Quarantinable diseases
Cholera	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	0.0
Plague	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
Viral haemorrhagic fever	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
Sexually transmissible infections
Chlamydial infection	138	1,527	340	1,835	468	158	1,576	861	6,903	7,230	5,410	4,286	14,133	6,534	1.6
Donovanosis	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	1	3	7	8	5	10	10	0.6
Gonococcal infection4	7	286	374	239	77	3	304	287	1,577	1,679	1,479	1,532	3,256	2,166	1.0
Syphilis5	5	223	63	31	2	2	74	25	425	465	257	449	890	596	0.9
Vaccine preventable diseases
Diphtheria	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.0
Haemophilus influenzae type b	0	3	1	0	1	1	0	0	6	2	10	11	8	9	0.6
Influenza‡	0	41	2	47	16	0	7	8	121	87	107	N/A	208	N/A	N/A
Measles	0	5	0	1	2	0	18	0	26	21	6	34	47	68	0.8
Mumps	0	5	0	3	2	0	1	1	12	19	16	45	31	50	0.3
Pertussis	44	312	0	130	47	12	97	24	666	862	1,625	1,161	1,528	1,758	0.6
Pneumococcal disease‡	14	160	15	126	40	12	100	32	499	286	242	N/A	785	N/A	N/A
Poliomyelitis	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0
Rubella6	0	7	0	4	1	0	0	1	13	38	53	88	51	105	0.1
Tetanus	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	1	1	2	0.0
Vectorborne diseases
Arbovirus infection NEC	0	2	0	22	0	0	2	0	26	28	7	13	54	31	2.0
Barmah Forest virus infection	0	216	3	493	0	0	2	1	715	277	251	273	992	434	2.6
Dengue	2	17	9	211	2	0	2	4	247	336	73	59	583	194	4.2
Japanese encephalitis	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	N/A	0	N/A	N/A
Kunjin virus infection	-	0	0	5	0	0	0	0	5	4	0	N/A	9	N/A	N/A
Malaria	8	20	17	60	10	3	8	21	147	175	142	173	322	287	0.8
Murray Valley encephalitis	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	N/A	0	N/A	N/A
Ross River virus infection	0	289	22	1,891	5	0	1	59	2,267	571	623	1,074	2,838	2,172	2.1
Zoonoses
Anthrax‡	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	N/A	0	N/A	N/A
Australian bat lyssavirus‡	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	N/A	0	N/A	N/A
Brucellosis	0	0	0	6	0	0	0	0	6	4	13	5	10	9	1.2
Leptospirosis	0	6	1	15	0	0	1	1	24	46	62	70	70	100	0.3
Other lyssavirus (NEC)‡	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	N/A	0	N/A	N/A
Ornithosis	0	11	0	0	0	0	16	1	28	24	13	31	52	32	0.9
Q fever	0	57	0	30	5	0	3	5	100	199	158	156	299	226	0.6
Other bacterial infections
Legionellosis	1	17	0	10	9	0	27	8	72	83	54	111	155	136	0.6
Leprosy	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	2	2	2	2	0.5
Meningococcal infection	2	38	3	21	4	2	23	8	101	86	114	138	187	141	0.7
Tuberculosis	1	40	4	5	8	0	34	12	104	168	175	236	272	348	0.4
Total	413	5,773	1,127	7,412	1,704	499	5,075	2,509	24,512	26,211	24,804	22,504	50,723	34,362	1.1

1. Totals comprise data from all States and Territories. Cumulative figures are subject to retrospective revision so there may be discrepancies between the number of new notifications and the increment in the cumulative figure from the previous period.

2. Not reported for NSW 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, Qld, SA , Vic and WA: includes gonococcal neonatal ophthalmia.

5. Includes congenital syphilis.

6. Includes congenital rubella.

* Date of notification = a composite of three dates: (i) the true onset date from a clinician, if available, (ii) the date the laboratory test was ordered, or (iii) the date reported to the public health unit.

† Ratio = ratio of current month total to mean of last 5 years calculated as described above.

‡ Notifiable from January 2001 only.

NA Not calculated as only notifiable for under 5 years.

NDR No data received.

NN Not Notifiable

NEC Not Elsewhere Classified.

- Elsewhere Classified.

This article was published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence Volume 27, No 3, September 2003.