Australia's notifiable diseases status, 1999: Annual report of the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System

This article published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence Volume 25, No 4, November 2001 contains the 1999 annual report of National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System. This annual report is available as 32 HTML documents and is also available in PDF format.

Page last updated: 17 December 2001

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The following table displays notification of disease by State and Territory, 1999. If you are not able to access these data please e-mail cdi.editor@health.gov.au.

Table 1. Notifications of communicable diseases by State or Territory health authorities in 1999, by date of notification*

Disease
ACT NSW NT Qld SA Tas Vic WA Total
Bloodborne diseases
Hepatitis B (incident)
3
68
19
55
19
5
93
45
307
Hepatitis B (unspecified)1
67
4,327
NN
839
257
34
2,174
393
8,091
Hepatitis C (incident)
20
77
0
-
87
18
70
113
385
Hepatitis C (unspecified)1
280
9,215
232
3,104
924
306
6,162
1,021
21,244
Hepatitis D
0
16
0
5
0
0
0
NN
21
Hepatitis (NEC)
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
NN
0
Gastrointestinal diseases
Botulism
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
NN
0
Campylobacterosis2
290
-
237
3,200
2,405
411
4,686
1,414
12,643
Haemolytic uraemic syndrome
0
11
1
1
3
0
8
0
24
Hepatitis A
8
413
89
360
121
5
269
292
1,557
Hepatitis E
1
0
0
0
0
0
1
NN
2
Listeriosis
0
22
0
11
3
2
13
12
63
Salmonellosis
65
1,467
356
2,231
963
145
1,214
713
7,154
Shigellosis2
5
-
111
129
72
1
117
112
547
SLTEC,VTEC3
0
0
0
NN
39
0
4
NN
43
Typhoid
0
38
0
3
5
0
17
9
72
Yersiniosis2
1
-
0
101
18
0
17
6
143
Quarantinable diseases
Cholera
0
2
0
0
0
0
1
0
3
Plague
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Rabies
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Viral haemorrhagic fever
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Yellow fever
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Sexually transmissible
Chancroid
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Chlamydial infection
177
2,477
856
4,472
1,012
251
2,940
1,897
14,082
Donovanosis
0
0
6
3
NN
0
0
7
16
Gonococcal infection4
20
1,306
1,138
1,186
235
19
785
987
5,676
Lymphogranuloma venereum
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
NN
0
Syphilis5
10
668
328
829
19
9
6
110
1,979
Vaccine preventable diseases
Diphtheria
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Haemophilus influenzae type b
1
13
3
12
4
0
3
4
40
Measles
5
32
10
33
5
11
111
23
230
Mumps
8
33
3
12
12
4
73
39
184
Pertussis
83
1,426
2
963
218
611
997
96
4,396
Poliomyelitis
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Rubella6
17
46
3
157
4
7
121
21
376
Tetanus
0
1
0
1
0
0
0
0
2
Vectorborne diseases
Arbovirus infection NEC
0
0
1
12
0
0
46
3
62
Barmah Forest virus infection
0
249
18
310
0
2
13
47
639
Dengue
1
13
31
62
6
0
0
18
131
Malaria
22
180
67
304
29
9
81
32
724
Ross River virus infection
8
963
157
2,308
41
67
247
625
4,416
Zoonoses
Brucellosis
0
0
0
49
0
0
3
0
52
Hydatid infection
0
NN
0
5
3
1
17
3
29
Leptospirosis
0
57
1
218
3
1
29
9
318
Ornithosis
0
NN
0
NN
9
2
66
7
84
Q fever
0
165
0
297
10
0
26
20
518
Other bacterial infections
Legionellosis
2
40
4
34
63
2
61
43
249
Leprosy
0
1
0
1
0
0
1
3
6
Meningococcal infection
5
220
8
85
27
13
138
72
568
Tuberculosis
12
469
100
105
69
9
298
91
1,153
Total
1,111
24,015
3,781
21,497
6,685
1,945
20,908
8,287
88,229

1. Unspecified hepatitis includes cases with hepatitis in whom the duration of illness can not be determined.
2. Notified as 'foodborne disease' or 'gastroenteritis in an institution' in New South Wales
3. Infections with Shiga-like toxin (Verotoxigenic 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
* Date of notification is a composite of three components: (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 NNDSS
NN Not notifiable
NEC Not Elsewhere Classified
- Elsewhere classified


This article was published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence Volume 25, No 4, November 2001.

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