title: Australia's notifiable disease status, 2010: annual report of the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System.
abstract: In 2010, 65 diseases and conditions were nationally notifiable in Australia. States and territories reported a total of 209,079 notifications of communicable diseases to the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System, a decrease of 12% on the number of notifications in 2009. This decrease was largely due to a reduction of influenza compared with the influenza A(H1N1) pandemic 2009. In 2010, the most frequently notified diseases were sexually transmissible infections (86,620 notifications, 41.4% of total notifications), vaccine preventable diseases (61,964 notifications, 29.6% of total notifications), and gastrointestinal diseases (31,548 notifications, 15.1% of total notifications). There were 18,302 notifications of bloodborne diseases; 8,244 notifications of vectorborne diseases; 1,866 notifications of other bacterial infections; 532 notifications of zoonoses and 3 notifications of quarantinable diseases.
authors.forename: Alison
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authors.lastname: Milton
authors.forename: Stefan
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authors.lastname: Stirzaker
authors.forename: Mark
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authors.lastname: Trungove
authors.forename: Dougald
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authors.lastname: Knuckey
authors.forename: Nicolee
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authors.lastname: Martin
authors.forename: Chris
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authors.lastname: Hastie
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authors.lastname: Pennington
authors.forename: Timothy
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authors.lastname: Sloan-Gardner
authors.forename: Gerard
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authors.lastname: Fitzsimmons
authors.forename: Katrina
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authors.lastname: Knope
authors.forename: Samantha
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authors.lastname: Martinek
authors.forename: Lucas
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authors.lastname: Mills
authors.forename: Christina
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authors.lastname: Barry
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authors.lastname: Wright
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authors.lastname: Power
mesh_terms: D017677:Age Distribution; D000818:Animals; D000847:Annual Reports as Topic; D001315:Australia / Q000453:epidemiology; D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000266:history; D018563:Disease Notification; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D011159:Population Surveillance; D012621:Seasons; D015047:Zoonoses / Q000453:epidemiology