The incidence of invasive group A streptococcal infections in Sweden was 6.1 per 100,000 population in 2012, the highest since the disease became notifiable in 2004. Furthermore, January and February 2013 marked a dramatic increase of cases notified, partly explainable by an increase of emm1/T1 isolates, a type previously shown to cause severe invasive disease more often than other types. Healt...

Even basic epidemiological information remains uncertain. Prevalence and incidence values are difficult to obtain since PD is not a notifiable disease, but it is believed that 1 in every 300 people in Canada and the United States has Parkinson's disease [2]. While genetic susceptibility is believed to play a large role in early-onset PD, most cases of PD seen in North America develop after age ...

Objectives. We examined whether automated electronic laboratory reporting of notifiable-diseases results in information being delivered to public health departments more completely and quickly than is the case with spontaneous, paperbased reporting. Methods. We used data from a local public health department, hospital infection control departments, and a community-wide health information exchan...

The Summary of Notifiable Diseases --- United States, 2005 contains the official statistics, in tabular and graphic form, for the reported occurrence of nationally notifiable infectious diseases in the United States for 2005. Unless otherwise noted, the data are final totals for 2005 reported as of June 30, 2006. These statistics are collected and compiled from reports sent by state health depa...

INTRODUCTION The Notifiable disease surveillance system (NDSS) was established in Zimbabwe through the Public Health Act. Between January and August 2011, 14 dog bites were treated at Kadoma Hospital. Eighty-six doses of anti-rabies vaccine were dispensed. One suspected rabies case was reported, without epidemiological investigations. The discrepancy may imply under reporting of Notifiable Dise...

Brucellosis, a zoonotic disease, was made statutorily notifiable in China in 1955. We analyzed the incidence and spatial-temporal distribution of human brucellosis during 1955-2014 in China using notifiable surveillance data: aggregated data for 1955-2003 and individual case data for 2004-2014. A total of 513,034 brucellosis cases were recorded, of which 99.3% were reported in northern China du...

Timely reporting, effective analyses and rapid distribution of surveillance data can assist in detecting the aberration of disease occurrence and further facilitate a timely response. In China, a new nationwide web-based automated system for outbreak detection and rapid response was developed in 2008. The China Infectious Disease Automated-alert and Response System (CIDARS) was developed by the...

In “Notifiable Diseases and Mortality Tables,” on pages ND403–22, weekly case counts were inadvertently omitted from the tables “Provisional cases of selected* infrequently reported notifiable diseases (<1,000 cases reported during the preceding year) — United States, week ending May 27, 2017 (21st week)†” and “Provisional cases of selected notifiable diseases (≥1,000 cases reported during the ...