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

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

Page last updated: 03 December 2003

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Table 3. Notification rates of diseases by State or Territory, 1 July to 30 September 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
0.7
0.0
1.2
1.1
1.7
1.1
3.1
1.2
Hepatitis B (unspecified)
17.4
45.9
NN
23.0
13.9
16.9
32.7
25.1
32.5
Hepatitis C (incident)
5.0
1.8
NN
NN
3.7
2.5
2.1
6.0
2.7
Hepatitis C (unspecified)
88.2
110.7
141.4
69.1
38.2
79.5
77.2
59.6
83.1
Hepatitis D
0.0
0.1
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.5
0.0
0.2
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
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
Campylobacteriosis2
100.7
NN
103.0
88.5
143.7
121.8
96.3
94.2
100.4
Cryptosporidiosis
0.0
1.6
2.0
3.8
4.7
9.3
5.7
5.4
3.8
Haemolytic uraemic syndrome
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.1
0.5
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.1
Hepatitis A
1.2
1.0
14.1
0.5
0.8
1.7
1.8
6.0
1.7
Hepatitis E
0.0
0.2
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.1
0.0
0.1
Listeriosis
0.0
0.4
0.0
0.1
0.0
0.8
0.2
0.2
0.2
Salmonellosis
16.2
14.0
161.6
32.4
17.9
21.2
13.9
20.5
20.1
Shigellosis
0.0
0.5
46.5
1.4
2.1
1.7
0.7
5.6
1.8
SLTEC,VTEC3
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.3
1.3
0.0
0.0
0.2
0.2
Typhoid
0.0
0.2
0.0
0.1
0.3
0.0
0.2
0.8
0.3
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 diseases
Chlamydial infection
161.6
114.3
761.6
204.4
119.2
143.8
135.2
189.7
152.2
Donovanosis
0.0
0.0
2.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
Gonococcal infection4
14.9
15.7
658.5
25.7
12.9
0.8
23.5
77.0
31.4
Syphilis
2.5
12.1
155.5
7.4
1.1
2.5
7.2
2.5
9.3
Syphilis - congenital
0.0
0.1
6.1
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.1
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
0.1
0.0
0.3
0.0
0.8
0.1
0.0
0.1
Influenza(laboratory confirmed)
5.0
41.7
222.2
81.9
69.2
5.9
51.2
109.0
60.7
Measles
0.0
0.5
2.0
0.4
2.6
0.0
0.1
0.0
0.5
Mumps
1.2
0.4
0.0
0.2
1.1
0.0
0.1
0.6
0.3
Pertussis
223.7
43.4
0.0
16.1
13.7
24.5
12.2
7.1
26.7
Pneumococcal disease
13.7
17.0
46.5
24.3
11.8
9.3
10.5
10.0
15.7
Poliomyelitis
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
Rubella
0.0
0.2
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.8
0.0
0.2
0.1
Rubella - congenital
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
Tetanus
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.1
0.0
0.0
Vectorborne diseases
Arbovirus infection NEC
0.0
0.1
0.0
1.7
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.4
Barmah Forest virus infection
0.0
3.4
2.0
11.1
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.4
3.3
Dengue
1.2
0.4
0.0
1.8
0.3
0.0
0.3
0.4
0.7
Japanese encephalitis
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
Kunjin virus
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
Malaria
6.2
1.4
10.1
5.9
1.6
3.4
1.3
2.3
2.6
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
2.0
0.0
17.3
0.5
0.0
0.0
3.3
4.3
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
0.3
0.0
0.0
0.1
0.0
0.1
Leptospirosis
0.0
0.5
0.0
1.1
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.4
0.4
Other lyssavirus (NEC)
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
Ornithosis
0.0
1.4
4.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
2.3
0.0
1.1
Q fever
0.0
3.0
0.0
2.5
0.5
0.0
0.1
0.6
1.6
Other bacterial infections
Legionellosis
0.0
0.6
0.0
1.4
4.7
0.0
1.0
2.9
1.4
Leprosy
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
Meningococcal infection
3.7
4.7
8.1
4.6
2.6
2.5
3.6
3.7
4.1
Tuberculosis
1.2
3.6
14.1
1.3
3.2
0.8
6.6
3.3
3.8

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 4, December 2003.

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