The Summary of notifiable diseases--United States, 2012 contains the official statistics, in tabular and graphic form, for the reported occurrence of nationally notifiable infectious diseases in the United States for 2012. Unless otherwise noted, the data are final totals for 2012 reported as of June 30, 2013. These statistics are collected and compiled from reports sent by state health departm...

OBJECTIVE In this study, a novel grey self-memory coupling model was developed to forecast the incidence rates of two notifiable infectious diseases (dysentery and gonorrhea); the effectiveness and applicability of this model was assessed based on its ability to predict the epidemiological trend of infectious diseases in China. METHODS The linear model, the conventional GM(1,1) model and the ...

SURVEILLANCE 37 (1) 2010 07 NEW ZEALAND AND OVERSEAS STATUS CSF is an OIE listed disease2 and listed in New Zealand as an unwanted notifiable organism3. Reports of a disease diagnosed as swine fever were not uncommon in New Zealand between 1894 and 1904 although it has been subsequently suggested that these were more likely to be due to pasteurellosis or salmonellosis4. Outbreaks of CSF were re...

INTRODUCTION This is a review of the epidemiology and trends of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in Singapore from 1994 to 2003. MATERIALS AND METHODS Data collated for both notifiable and non-notifiable STIs from 1994 to 2003 were analysed. This data consisted of STI notifications from medical practitioners in Singapore as well as from the Department of STI Control clinic itself. RES...

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 ...

The objective of this study is to epidemiologically describe large and small ruminant Brucellosis in Turkey by conducting a register-based study. For purpose, the data concerning which notifiable disease Turkey, were obtained from anonymous reports World Organization for Animal Health. In cattle, 7,889 outbreaks registered all 81 provinces between 2005 2015 15,059 animals contracted disease. sh...

OBJECTIVES New Zealand is currently implementing a standard for the electronic referral of patients from primary care to District Health Board (DHB) provided specialist services (eReferral). Medical Officers of Health working within DHB public health services receive referrals through a legally mandated disease notification system. Although laboratories have reported notifiable diseases electro...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the reliability of the public health event notification assessment process under the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR). METHODS In 2009, 193 National IHR Focal Points (NFPs) were invited to use the decision instrument in Annex 2 of the IHR to determine whether 10 fictitious public health events should be notified to WHO. Each event's notifiability was asse...

Notification data, for selected STIs, extracted from the Nationally Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS) as at 17 September 2015 were used for the analyses. HIV notification data, collected through the National HIV Registry, were sourced from the 2015 annual surveillance reports from the Kirby Institute.4 NatioNal Notifiable Diseases surveillaNce system surveillaNce report: sexually ...