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 notification rates for the period 1 January to 31 March 2004.

Page last updated: 04 July 2004

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Table 2. Notifications of diseases received by state and territory health authorities in the period 1 January to 31 March 2004, by date of notification*

Disease
State or territory Total 1st quarter 20041 Total 4th quarter 2003 Total 1st quarter 2003 Last 5 years mean 1st quarter Year to date 2004 Last 5 years YTD mean Ratio†
ACT NSW NT Qld SA Tas Vic WA
Bloodborne diseases
Hepatitis B (incident)
0
12
2
15
1
2
23
10
65
65
93
76
65
92
0.7
Hepatitis B (unspecified)
15
605
NN
212
60
23
391
114
1,420
1,464
1,628
1,654
1,420
1,738
0.8
Hepatitis C (incident)
1
6
NN
NN
15
2
14
29
67
87
124
72
67
130
0.5
Hepatitis C (unspecified)
63
1,711
64
782
153
70
766
272
3,881
3,887
3,866
4,525
3,881
4,627
0.8
Hepatitis D
0
4
0
0
0
0
0
0
4
6
6
4
4
5
0.9
Hepatitis (NEC)
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
18
16
0
0
3
0.0
Gastrointestinal diseases
Botulism
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0.0
Campylobacteriosis2
96
NN
63
1,118
450
171
1,777
568
4,243
3,890
4,490
4,735
4,243
3,624
1.2
Cryptosporidiosis‡
5
150
42
188
13
0
54
51
503
189
520
581
503
1,050
0.5
Haemolytic uraemic sy0ome
0
2
0
0
0
0
1
0
3
6
5
3
3
5
0.6
Hepatitis A
0
48
5
4
6
1
18
21
103
96
118
112
103
227
0.5
Hepatitis E
0
4
0
1
0
0
6
0
11
1
2
11
11
2
5.0
Listeriosis
0
6
1
3
0
1
2
3
16
17
20
20
16
19
0.8
Salmonellosis
27
773
120
1,143
143
41
302
191
2,740
1,602
2,761
3,105
2,740
2,640
1.0
Shigellosis
0
27
26
17
31
1
13
36
151
83
153
175
151
155
1.0
SLTEC,VTEC3
0
0
0
5
4
0
3
0
12
9
19
14
12
18
0.7
Typhoid
0
13
0
4
1
0
6
3
27
12
19
33
27
26
1.1
Quarantinable diseases
Cholera
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
0
0
1
1
1
1.3
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
Smallpox
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
NA
NA
Tularemia
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
NA
NA
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 diseases
Chlamydial (NEC)
162
2,496
371
2,152
539
136
1,976
1,054
8,886
7,323
7,343
9,955
8,886
5,176
1.7
Donovanosis
0
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
2
1
7
2
2
7
0.3
Gonococcal infection4
9
353
372
267
65
4
308
315
1,693
1,450
1,768
1,879
1,693
1,590
1.1
Syphilis (unspecified)
6
0
64
0
3
5
0
59
137
183
234
145
137
400
0.3
Syphilis < two years duration
0
57
0
29
0
0
16
0
102
62
97
106
102
NA
NA
Syphilis > two years duration
0
279
0
41
0
0
67
0
387
313
207
417
387
NA
NA
Syphilis - congenital
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
2
0
0
2
0.0
Vaccine preventable disease
Diphtheria
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0.0
Haemophilus influenzae type b
0
1
1
0
1
2
0
0
5
4
2
5
5
6
0.9
Influenza (laboratory confirmed)‡
0
46
1
22
10
0
16
10
105
256
98
117
105
90
1.2
Measles
0
6
0
0
1
0
4
0
11
17
22
12
11
45
0.2
Mumps
2
15
0
1
0
0
2
4
24
27
21
26
24
30
0.8
Pertussis
43
468
1
156
42
13
208
72
1,003
1,736
911
1,088
1,003
1,177
0.9
Pneumococcal disease (invasive)‡
9
100
17
60
40
2
70
17
315
526
299
376
315
260
1.2
Poliomyelitis
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0.0
Rubella
0
5
0
1
0
0
0
0
6
2
36
7
6
56
0.1
Rubella - congenital
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0.0
Tetanus
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
1
0
2
1
1
2
0.6
Vectorborne diseases
Barmah Forest virus infection
0
96
5
192
0
0
3
22
318
158
279
377
318
266
1.2
Dengue
3
9
10
204
3
1
2
1
233
203
346
246
233
139
1.7
Flavivirus infection NEC
0
4
1
54
0
0
4
0
63
27
20
77
63
24
2.7
Japanese encephalitis‡
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0.0
Kunjin virus‡
0
0
0
6
0
0
0
0
6
2
12
6
6
3
2.0
Malaria
5
20
5
56
2
3
14
5
110
138
181
129
110
213
0.5
Murray Valley encephalitis‡
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
0.0
Ross River virus infection
2
235
182
1,007
19
13
50
844
2,352
658
584
2,881
2,352
1,433
1.6
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
0.0
Brucellosis
0
0
0
3
0
0
1
0
4
2
4
6
4
7
0.6
Leptospirosis
0
10
0
54
0
0
0
0
64
22
47
67
64
76
0.8
Other lyssavirus (NEC)‡
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0.0
Ornithosis
0
9
0
0
2
0
49
0
60
67
28
62
60
25
2.4
Q fever
1
46
2
41
3
0
3
1
97
107
208
101
97
174
0.6
Other bacterial infections
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
NA
NA
Legionellosis
0
22
0
9
9
1
20
15
76
93
86
87
76
80
1.0
Leprosy
0
1
0
1
0
0
0
0
2
0
2
2
2
1
1.4
Meningococcal infection
5
28
4
20
4
2
21
5
89
142
88
107
89
106
0.8
Tuberculosis
3
56
6
19
18
1
64
10
177
227
218
186
177
265
0.7
Total
457
7,723
1,366
7,889
1,638
495
6,274
3,735
29,577
25,181
26,992
33,591
29,577
26,074
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 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.

* 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 authority.

† Ratio = ratio of current quarter total to mean of the same reporting period over the last 5 years calculated as described above.

‡ Notifiable from January 2001 only. Ratio and mean calculations are based the last two years.

NA Not calculated as only notifiable for under 5 years.

NN Not notifiable.

NEC Not elsewhere classified.


This article was published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence, Volume 28 No 2, June 2004.

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