Introduction In the United States, 800,0001.4 million people are chronically infected with hepatitis B virus (HBV); these persons are at increased risk for chronic liver disease and its sequelae (CDC, 2010; Wasley, 2010). Current national viral hepatitis surveillance is a passive laboratory-initiated reporting system to state or local health departments with only 39 health departments reporting...

Murine (endemic) typhus is a notifiable disease in Hong Kong, but its diagnosis can be difficult. We report a case of murine typhus in a middle-aged man who presented with persistent fever, headache, and skin rash 2 weeks after returning from a visit to China. The diagnosis of murine typhus requires a high index of suspicion for a febrile patient with a history of potential exposure to the dise...

In 2008, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention awarded contracts to health information exchanges in Indiana, New York and Washington/Idaho to accelerate public health situational awareness. Awardees in each state have disseminated their findings and lessons at professional conferences and in peer-reviewed journals. The dissemination formats ranged from papers, oral presentations, poste...

HIV notification enters national debate regularly, often introduced by politicians and supported by many individual healthcare workers. We argue that its proponents advance confused or poorly informed rationales for making HIV notifiable. We present reasons why making HIV notifiable would be inappropriate in South Africa, why the public health benefits of a notification programme are not even l...

In 1998 there were 85,096 notifications to the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System; slightly lower than in 1997 (89,579). The number of measles cases remained low, and well below the number reported in the outbreak years of 1993 and 1994. Rubella notifications further decreased and remained low in 1998. The Measles Control Campaign from August to November 1998, did not impact signi...

The alarming Coronavirus which affected the whole world has resulted in various complication affecting majority of population throughout world. pandemic COVID 19 led to surge potentially life threatening invasive fungal disease (IFD) called Mucormycosis. It is one aggressive devasting and considered as oppurtunistic infection immunocompromised individuals. Mucormycosis, so Black Fungus caused b...

A summary of diseases currently being reported by each jurisdiction is provided in Table 1. There were 57,995 notifications to the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System with a notification received date between 1 October to 31 December 2014 (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 no...

A summary of diseases currently being reported by each jurisdiction is provided in Table 1. There were 64,307 notifications to the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS) with a notification received date between 1 July to 30 September 2014 (Table 2). The notification rate of diseases per 100,000 population for each state or territory is presented in Table 3. Table 1: Reporting...

Travel-acquired dengue cases have been increasing as the overall global dengue burden has expanded. In Korea, imported dengue cases have been reported since 2000 when it first became a notifiable disease. During the first four months of 2016, three times more dengue cases were reported in Korea than during the same period the previous year. A safe and efficacious vaccine for travelers would be ...