Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease (STD) produced by Treponema pallidum, which mainly affects humans and is able to invade practically any organ in the body. Its infection facilitates the transmission of other STDs. Since the end of the last decade, successive outbreaks of syphilis have been reported in most western European countries. Like other STDs, syphilis is a notifiable disease i...

South and South-East Asian countries are currently in the midst of a new epidemic of Dengue Fever. This paper presents disease surveillance systems in Sri Lanka and India, monitoring a handful of communicable diseases termed as notifiable. These systems typically require 15-30 days to communicate field data to the central Epidemiology Units, to be then manually processed (Prashant & Waidyanatha...

A summary of diseases currently being reported by each jurisdiction is provided in Table 1. There were 67,031 notifications to the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS) between 1 January to 31 March 2016 (Table 2). The notification rate of diseases per 100,000 population for each state or territory is presented in Table 3. Table 1: Reporting of notifiable diseases by jurisdic...

The epizootiologic, climatic, and ecologic conditions in the Middle East, combined with socioeconomic and agricultural structures in Israel, have created a unique and hazardous veterinary public health situation in this country. In this paper, emerging zoonotic diseases are newly introduced disease agents or endemic zoonoses whose previous epidemiologic patterns have changed. As of 1996, 15 zoo...

A case of diphtheria encountered in the accident and emergency department is described. In addition, 38 cases of diphtheria have been analysed, and demonstrate that, although now rare in this country, the disease still exists and its clinical features remain unchanged. It presents almost as often in the accident and emergency department as it does to the general practitioner and remains overwhe...

Tuberculosis (TB) is currently the leading cause of death from a curable infectious disease accounting for 8.7 million new cases and 1.4 million deaths in the year 2011. From the year 2012, TB is a notifiable disease in India which means that all cases of TB diagnosed by any means has to be reported to the public health authorities. This would help policy makers to make rational decisions with ...

Lumpy skin disease (LSD) is a severe viral of cattle caused by the lumpy virus (LSDV), member Capripoxvirus genus poxviridae family. Fever and flat disk-like nodules on characterize disease. It can also lead to death significant economic losses, especially in herds, that have never been exposed virus. Blood-feeding insects, such as specific types flies, mosquitoes, ticks, are thought be primary...

In 1997, the death of a young western Australian woman made meningococcal disease a media issue. The publication of horror stories of babies losing limbs created panic and the sense of an epidemic out of control. As we move into the peak period for occurrence of meningococcal disease in 1998, it is timely to review the 1997 data from the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS) ...