Communicable Diseases Surveillance - Tables - NNDSS part 3

This report published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence Volume 27, No 3, September 2003 contains an analysis and tables of notifiable diseases and laboratory data, and quarterly surveillance reports.

Page last updated: 03 September 2003

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Table 4. Notification rates of diseases by State or Territory, 1 April to 30 June 2003. (Rate per 100,000 population)

Disease1 State or Territory Australia
ACT NSW NT Qld SA Tas Vic WA
Bloodborne diseases
Hepatitis B (incident) 0.0 0.9 12.1 0.8 0.8 5.1 2.9 2.1 1.7
Hepatitis B (unspecified) 18.6 37.9 NN 22.0 15.2 11.0 31.3 24.6 29.1
Hepatitis C (incident) 2.5 0.9 NN NN 3.2 1.7 1.7 6.2 2.1
Hepatitis C (unspecified) 68.3 81.8 87.0 59.0 38.6 84.5 73.4 58.1 69.6
Hepatitis D 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.1
Hepatitis E 0.0 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 0.0
Gastrointestinal diseases
Botulism 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Campylobacterosis2 117.9 NN 153.8 93.6 166.3 120.8 89.4 81.5 101.2
Cryptosporidiosis 5.0 2.6 36.4 5.0 6.6 1.7 3.4 23.2 5.9
Haemolytic uraemic syndrome 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.0
Hepatitis A 0.0 0.9 10.1 1.9 1.1 7.6 1.6 3.1 1.7
Hepatitis E 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Listeriosis 0.0 0.6 0.0 0.0 0.3 0.0 0.6 0.2 0.4
Salmonellosis 24.8 23.2 186.1 55.2 27.6 25.3 21.7 32.0 31.8
Shigellosis 0.0 0.6 66.8 0.8 1.6 0.8 1.2 5.8 2.0
SLTEC,VTEC3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 2.4 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.2
Typhoid 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.3 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.1
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
Chlamydial infection 171.3 91.7 687.9 196.8 123.0 133.5 129.0 178.0 140.0
Donovanosis 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.1
Gonococcal infection4 8.7 17.2 756.7 25.6 20.2 2.5 24.9 59.3 32.0
Syphilis5 6.2 13.4 127.5 3.3 0.5 1.7 6.1 5.2 8.6
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 0.2 2.0 0.0 0.3 0.8 0.0 0.0 0.1
Influenza 0.0 2.5 4.0 5.0 4.2 0.0 0.6 1.7 2.5
Measles 0.0 0.3 0.0 0.1 0.5 0.0 1.5 0.0 0.5
Mumps 0.0 0.3 0.0 0.3 0.5 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.2
Pertussis 54.6 18.7 0.0 13.9 12.3 10.1 7.9 5.0 13.5
Pneumococcal disease 17.4 9.6 30.3 13.5 10.5 10.1 8.2 6.6 10.1
Poliomyelitis 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Rubella6 0.0 0.4 0.0 0.4 0.3 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.3
Tetanus 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Vectorborne diseases
Arbovirus infection NEC 0.0 0.1 0.0 2.4 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.5
Barmah Forest virus infection 0.0 13.0 6.1 52.9 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.2 14.5
Dengue 2.5 1.0 18.2 22.6 0.5 0.0 0.2 0.8 5.0
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 0.0 0.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1
Malaria 9.9 1.2 34.4 6.4 2.6 2.5 0.7 4.3 3.0
Murray Valley encephalitis 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Ross River virus infection 0.0 17.4 44.5 202.8 1.3 0.0 0.1 12.2 46.0
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 0.0 0.0 0.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1
Leptospirosis 0.0 0.4 2.0 1.6 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.5
Other lyssavirus (NEC) 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Ornithosis 0.0 0.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.3 0.2 0.6
Q fever 0.0 3.4 0.0 3.2 1.3 0.0 0.2 1.0 2.0
Other bacterial infections
Legionellosis 1.2 1.0 0.0 1.1 2.4 0.0 2.2 1.7 1.5
Leprosy 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0
Meningococcal infection 2.5 2.3 6.1 2.3 1.1 1.7 1.9 1.7 2.0
Tuberculosis 1.2 2.4 8.1 0.5 2.1 0.0 2.8 2.5 2.1


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 3, September 2003.

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