Communicable disease 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 notifications for the period 1 July to 30 September 2004.

Page last updated: 28 January 2005

There were 27,389 notifications to the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS) with a notification date between 1 July to 30 September 2004 (Table 2).

Table 2. Notifications of diseases received by State and Territory health authorities for the period 1 July to 30 September 2004, by date of onset*

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Disease
ACT NSW NT Qld SA Tas Vic WA Total 3rd quarter 20041 Total 2nd quarter 2004 Total 3rd quarter 2003 Last 5 years mean 3rd quarter Year to date 2004 Last 5 years YTD mean Ratio
Bloodborne diseases
Hepatitis B (incident)
1
3
2
11
3
6
35
14
75
71
86
97
216
288
0.8
Hepatitis B (unspecified)
15
998
NN
204
74
9
370
92
1,762
2,114
1,440
1,820
5,331
5,278
1.0
Hepatitis C (incident)
1
0
NN
NN
13
1
20
38
73
53
125
115
206
362
0.6
Hepatitis C (unspecified)
46
1,465
54
739
140
91
739
276
3,550
3,453
3,569
4,289
10,558
12,988
0.8
Hepatitis D
0
5
0
4
0
0
1
0
10
8
10
8
22
18
1.2
Gastrointestinal diseases
Botulism
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0.0
Campylobacterosis2
80
NN
56
1,079
532
122
1,436
441
3,746
3,010
3,333
3,493
11,022
10,364
1.1
Cryptosporidiosis
1
21
21
67
23
11
75
21
240
435
190
220
1,190
1,714
0.7
Haemolytic uraemic syndrome
0
2
0
0
1
0
0
0
3
3
3
2
9
9
1.0
Hepatitis A
1
28
0
7
2
0
21
14
73
76
91
172
255
572
0.4
Hepatitis E
0
1
0
1
0
0
0
0
2
8
5
2
21
9
2.4
Listeriosis
1
5
0
1
2
0
4
3
16
21
12
13
53
49
1.1
Salmonellosis (NEC)
15
264
69
365
75
15
230
129
1,162
1,978
1,019
1,062
5,868
5,343
1.1
Shigellosis
0
16
16
11
4
0
22
15
84
147
94
109
384
394
1.0
SLTEC,VTEC3
0
0
0
2
8
0
0
0
10
8
9
9
30
36
0.8
Typhoid
0
4
0
3
1
0
8
0
16
15
13
15
59
50
1.2
Quarantinable diseases
Cholera
0
1
0
0
0
0
2
0
3
2
0
1
6
3
2.3
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
0
0.0
Tularemia
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 transmissible infections
Chlamydia
147
2,422
356
2,250
516
153
1,818
1,015
8,677
8,899
7,710
5,413
26,678
15,801
1.7
Donovanosis
0
0
2
0
0
0
0
1
3
1
3
4
6
15
0.4
Gonococcal infection4
6
254
337
361
48
7
265
318
1,596
1,902
1,607
1,492
5,248
4,682
1.1
Syphilis (unspecified)
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
57
118
223
123
646
0.2
Syphilis <  two years duration
2
60
21
19
4
0
17
8
131
131
129
108
412
311
1.3
Syphilis > two years duration
0
277
32
47
0
0
91
14
461
397
242
239
1,276
753
1.7
Syphilis - congenital
0
0
1
2
0
0
0
0
3
3
4
3
8
7
1.1
Vaccine preventable diseases
Diphtheria
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0.0
Haemophilus influenzae type b
0
1
1
2
1
0
1
0
6
3
6
6
13
22
0.6
Influenza (laboratory confirmed)
0
423
19
455
3
2
112
68
1,082
161
3,102
2,233
1,350
2,629
0.5
Measles
0
2
0
0
3
0
5
2
12
6
26
24
29
96
0.3
Mumps
1
14
0
3
0
0
1
3
22
21
16
35
67
104
0.6
Pertussis
25
1,097
0
265
250
10
162
779
2,588
1,205
1,517
1,772
4,891
4,045
1.2
Pneumococcal disease (invasive)
17
341
33
244
48
18
135
85
921
612
796
774
1,861
1,542
1.2
Poliomyelitis
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0.0
Rubella
0
4
0
3
0
0
0
0
7
11
6
71
24
177
0.1
Rubella - congenital
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
2.5
Tetanus
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
1
0
4
3
1.4
Vectorborne diseases
Barmah forest virus infection
1
66
5
95
3
0
3
13
186
324
167
124
829
787
1.1
Dengue
1
7
3
13
1
0
2
2
29
64
34
29
330
257
1.3
Flavivirus infection NEC
0
4
0
10
0
0
1
0
15
12
20
7
83
39
2.1
Japanese encephalitis
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0.0
Kunjin virus
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
7
7
0.0
Malaria
2
31
4
68
3
2
17
11
138
149
132
162
411
542
0.8
Murray Valley encephalitis
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
1
2
0.6
Ross River virus infection
0
39
17
57
3
1
3
19
139
1,382
214
189
3,958
3,001
1.3
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
10
0
0
1
0
11
4
4
10
21
22
1.0
Leptospirosis
0
9
0
19
0
0
1
2
31
56
27
32
154
175
0.9
Lyssavirus unspecified
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0.0
Ornithosis
0
25
0
1
0
0
21
0
47
57
67
44
174
106
1.6
Q fever
0
55
0
18
6
0
9
1
89
110
88
133
304
453
0.7
Other bacterial infections
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
Legionellosis
0
12
1
13
9
0
18
11
64
92
60
62
239
254
0.9
Leprosy
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
1
3
3
0.9
Meningococcal infection
4
42
1
28
4
9
21
16
125
117
208
229
335
471
0.7
Tuberculosis
2
70
6
11
0
4
70
16
179
205
246
252
613
726
0.8
Total
369
8,069
1,057
6,489
1,780
461
5,737
3,427
27,389
27,386
26,549
25,099
84,684
75,153
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 from New South Wales where it is only notifiable as 'foodborne disease' or 'gastroenteritis in an institution'.
3. Infections with shiga-like toxin (verotoxin) producing Escherichia coli (SLTEC/VTEC).
* Date of onset= the true date of onset. If this is not available, the 'date of onset' is equivalent to the earliest of two dates: (i) specimen collection date or (ii) the date of notification to a public health unit. Hepatitis B and C unspecified were analysed by date of notification.
† Ratio= ratio of current quarter total to the mean of last 5 years for the same quarter.
‡ Notifiable from January 2001. Ratio and mean calculations are based on the last three years.
NN Not notifiable.
NEC Not elsewhere classified.

This table was published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence Vol 28 No 4, December 2004.

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