Australia's notifiable diseases status, 2004, annual report of the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System.
In 2004, 60 diseases and conditions were nationally notifiable in Australia. States and Territories reported a total of 110,929 cases of communicable diseases to the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS): an increase of 4 per cent on the number of notifications in 2003. In 2004, the most frequently notified diseases were sexually transmissible infections (46,762 cases; 42% of total notifications), gastrointestinal diseases (25,247 cases; 23% of total notifications) and bloodborne diseases (19,191 cases; 17% of total notifications). There were 13,206 notifications of vaccine preventable diseases, 6,000 notifications of vectorborne diseases, 1,799 notifications of other bacterial infections (includes, legionellosis, leprosy, meningococcal infections and tuberculosis) and 877 notifications of zoonotic diseases.
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Keflemariam
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Surveillance Branch, Office of Health Protection, Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. Kefle.yohannes@health.gov.au
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Paul W
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Roberts
April
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Liu
Conan
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Firestone
Simon M
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Bartlett
Mark
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East
Iain
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Hull
Brynley P
BP
Kirk
Martyn D
MD
Lawrence
Glenda L
GL
McDonald
Ann
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McIntyre
Peter B
PB
Menzies
Robert I
RI
Quinn
Helen E
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Vadjic
Claire
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D017677:Age Distribution; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001315:Australia / Q000453:epidemiology; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003140:Communicable Disease Control; D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D018563:Disease Notification / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011159:Population Surveillance; D018571:Sentinel Surveillance; D017678:Sex Distribution