Communicable Diseases Surveillance: Tables - National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS) notifications

This report published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence Volume 27, No 4, December 2003 contains notification data from NNDSS for the period 1 July to 30 September 2003.

Page last updated: 03 December 2003

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Table 2. Notifications of diseases received by State and Territory health authorities in the period 1 July to 30 September 2003, by date of notification*

Disease	State or territory								Total 3rd quarter 2003¹	Total 2nd quarter 2003	Total 3rd quarter 2002	Last 5 years mean 3rd quarter	Year to date 2003	Last 5 years YTD mean	Ratio^†
Disease	ACT	NSW	NT	Qld	SA	Tas	Vic	WA	Total 3rd quarter 2003¹	Total 2nd quarter 2003	Total 3rd quarter 2002	Last 5 years mean 3rd quarter	Year to date 2003	Last 5 years YTD mean	Ratio^†
Bloodborne diseases
Hepatitis B (incident)	0	12	0	11	4	2	14	15	58	90	104	100	240	282	0.6
Hepatitis B (unspecified)	14	762	NN	213	53	20	398	121	1,581	1,673	1,759	1,910	4,786	5,508	0.8
Hepatitis C (incident)	4	30	0	0	14	3	25	29	105	109	95	109	337	334	1.0
Hepatitis C (unspecified)	71	1,837	70	640	145	94	941	287	4,085	3,747	4,050	4,636	11,557	13,944	0.9
Hepatitis D	0	2	0	0	0	0	6	0	8	5	6	5	18	13	1.6
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	0	0	0	0	0	1		0	1	2	0.0
Campylobacteriosis²	81	0	51	820	546	144	1,173	454	3,269	3,519	3,367	3,530	11,273	9,961	0.9
Cryptosporidiosis^‡	0	26	1	35	18	11	69	26	186	310	236	172	1,014	1,607	NA
Haemolytic uraemic syndrome	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	3	2	4	3	10	9	1.2
Hepatitis A	1	16	7	5	3	2	22	29	85	108	81	254	310	937	0.3
Hepatitis E	0	4	0	0	0	0	1	0	5	1	4	2	8	8	2.1
Listeriosis	0	6	0	1	0	1	2	1	11	20	11	13	51	47	0.8
Salmonellosis	13	233	80	300	68	25	169	99	987	1,620	1,156	1,105	5,366	5455	0.9
Shigellosis	0	8	23	13	8	2	9	27	90	106	110	114	349	416	0.8
SLTEC,VTEC³	0	0	0	3	5	0	0	1	9	12	14	8	40	31	1.1
Typhoid	0	4	0	1	1	0	3	4	13	6	16	15	38	54	0.9
Quarantinable diseases
Cholera	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	2	1	3	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 transimissible diseases
Chlamydial (NEC)	130	1,898	377	1,894	453	170	1,647	914	7,483	7,411	6,318	4,440	22,219	12,962	1.7
Donovanosis	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	3	6	11	19	0.2
Gonococcal infection⁴	12	261	326	238	49	1	286	371	1,544	1,694	1,589	1,435	4,996	4,475	1.1
Syphilis	2	201	77	69	4	3	88	12	456	489	531	469	1,466	1,337	1.0
Syphilis - congenital	0	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	4	3	2	2	9	6	1.8
Vaccine preventable disease
Diptheria	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.0
Haemophilus influenzae type b	0	1	0	3	0	1	1	0	6	8	3	7	16	25	0.8
Influenza (laboratory confirmed)^‡	4	692	110	759	263	7	624	525	2,984	136	2,618	738	3,218	937	NA
Measles	0	9	1	4	10	0	1	0	25	27	17	35	76	130	0.8
Mumps	1	6	0	2	4	0	1	3	17	13	20	42	50	124	0.4
Pertussis	180	721	0	149	52	29	149	34	1,314	832	1,157	1,710	3,047	4,314	0.8
Pneumococcal disease (invasive)^‡	11	282	23	225	45	11	128	48	773	558	892	398	1,629	780	NA
Poliomyelitis	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0
Rubella	0	3	0	0	0	1	0	1	5	12	79	123	54	294	0.0
Rubella - congenital	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0.0
Tetanus	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1			2	3	3	0.5
Vectorborne diseases
Arbovirus infection NEC	0	2	0	16	0	0	0	0	18	17	2	5	55	42	3.3
Barmah Forest virus infection	0	57	1	103	0	0	0	2	163	762	106	106	1,204	630	1.5
Dengue	1	7	0	17	1	0	4	2	32	262	39	36	640	201	0.9
Japanese encephalitis^‡	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	NA
Kunjin virus^‡	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	17	2	NA
Malaria	5	24	5	55	6	4	16	11	126	157	83	160	463	559	0.8
Murray Valley encephalitis^‡	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	5	0.0
Ross River virus infection	0	34	0	160	2	0	0	16	212	2,351	101	186	3,146	2,845	1.1
Zoonoses
Anthrax^‡	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	NA
Brucellosis	0	0	0	3	0	0	1	0	4	7	8	11	15	25	0.4
Leptospirosis	0	8	0	10	0	0	0	2	20	28	18	35	95	181	0.6
Other lyssavirus (NEC)^‡	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	NA
Ornithosis	0	24	2	0	0	0	28	0	54	37	96	35	117	87	1.5
Q fever	0	50	0	23	2	0	1	3	79	118	174	149	405	463	0.5
Other bacterial infections
Legionellosis	0	10	0	13	18	0	12	14	67	87	79	58	240	243	1.2
Leprosy	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	3	3	0.0
Meningococcal infection	3	78	4	43	10	3	44	18	203	104	249	229	395	465	0.9
Tuberculosis	1	60	7	12	12	1	80	16	189	175	225	257	578	765	0.7
Total	516	6,567	1,169	5,617	1,727	510	5,507	2,920	24,533	26,627	25,426	22,652	79,566	70,531	1.2

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.
* 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 4, December 2003.