Communicable Diseases Surveillance - Tables: Reporting jurisdictions

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A summary of diseases currently being reported by each jurisdiction is provided in Table 1. There were 29,577 notifications to the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS) with a notification date between 1 January and 31 March 2004 (Table 2). The notification rate of diseases per 100,000 population for each State or Territory is presented in Table 3.

Table 1. Reporting of notifiable diseases by jurisdiction

* Syphilis data from South Australia, Tasmania and Western Australia cannot yet be classified into less than 2 years and more than 2 years duration, NSW classifies syphilis into < 1year and > 1 years or unknown duration.

† Laboratory confirmed influenza is not notifiable in the ACT or South Australia but reports are forwarded to NNDSS.

‡ Flavivirus (NEC) replaces Arbovirus (NEC) from 1 January 2004. Western Australian data cannot yet be classified.

§ In the Australian Capital Territory, Murray Valley encephalitis virus and Kunjin are combined under Murray Valley encephalitis.

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