title: Australia's notifiable disease status, 2014: Annual report of the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System.
abstract: In 2014, 69 diseases and conditions were nationally notifiable in Australia. States and territories reported a total of 275,581 notifications of communicable diseases to the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System, an increase of 22% on the number of notifications in 2013. In 2014, the most frequently notified diseases were sexually transmissible infections (105,719 notifications, 38% of total notifications), vaccine preventable diseases (101,400 notifications, 37% of total notifications), and gastrointestinal diseases (40,367 notifications, 15% of total notifications). There were 17,411 notifications of bloodborne diseases; 8,125 notifications of vectorborne diseases; 1,942 notifications of other bacterial infections; 615 notifications of zoonoses and 2 notifications of quarantinable diseases.
mesh_terms: D017677:Age Distribution; D000818:Animals; D001315:Australia / Q000453:epidemiology; D017848:Blood-Borne Pathogens; D003140:Communicable Disease Control; D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D018563:Disease Notification / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D004199:Disease Vectors; D005767:Gastrointestinal Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D062486:Public Health Surveillance; D017678:Sex Distribution; D012749:Sexually Transmitted Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D015047:Zoonoses / Q000453:epidemiology