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Infectious Diseases - Most Frequently Reported Diseases

Among the CDC's notifiable diseases the three most frequently reported infectious diseases in the United States in 2003 were chlamydia (877,478 cases—the highest it has been since voluntary reporting began in the mid-1980s), gonorrhea (335,104 cases), and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS; 44,232 cases), all sexually transmitted diseases. The remaining notifiable infectious diseases in the top ten were as follows:

  • Salmonellosis—a foodborne disease causing fever and intestinal disorders (43,657 cases)
  • Syphilis, all stages—a sexually transmitted disease that occurs in three stages; it can be congenital (an infant can be born with the disease) (34,270 cases)
  • Shigellosis—foodborne and waterborne dysentery (23,581 cases)
  • Lyme disease—a disease spread by ticks (21,273 cases)
  • Varicella (chicken pox)—a disease (usually of childhood) marked by a vesicular rash on the face and body caused by the herpes varicella zoster virus (20,948 cases)
  • Giardiasis—a common protozoal infection of the small intestine, spread via contaminated food and water and direct person-to-person contact (19,709 cases)

TABLE 7.1 Nationally notifiable infectious diseases, 2006 "Nationally Notifiable Infectious Diseases: United States 2006," in National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, January 2006, http://www.cdc.gov/epo/dphsi/phs/infdis2006.htm (accessed January 16, 2006)

TABLE 7.1
Nationally notifiable infectious diseases, 2006
SOURCE: "Nationally Notifiable Infectious Diseases: United States 2006," in National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, January 2006, http://www.cdc.gov/epo/dphsi/phs/infdis2006.htm (accessed January 16, 2006)
Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)
Anthrax
Arboviral neuroinvasive and non-neuroinvasive diseases
    California serogroup virus disease
    Eastern equine encephalitis virus disease
    Powassan virus disease
    St. Louis encephalitis virus disease
    West Nile virus disease
    Western equine encephalitis virus disease
Botulism
Botulism, foodborne
Botulism, infant
Botulism, other (wound & unspecified)
Brucellosis
Chancroid
Chlamydia trachomatis, genital infections
Cholera
Coccidioidomycosis
Cryptosporidiosis
Cyclosporiasis
Diphtheria
Ehrlichiosis
     Ehrlichiosis, human granulocytic
     Ehrlichiosis, human monocytic
     Ehrlichiosis, human, other or unspecified agent
Giardiasis
Gonorrhea
Haemophilus influenzae, invasive disease
Hansen disease (leprosy)
Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome
Hemolytic uremic syndrome, post-diarrheal
Hepatitis, viral, acute
     Hepatitis A, acute
     Hepatitis B, acute
     Hepatitis B virus, perinatal infection
     Hepatitis C, acute
Hepatitis, viral, chronic
Chronic hepatitis B
Hepatitis C virus infection (past or present)
HIV infection
     HIV infection, adult (>=13 years)
     HIV infection, pediatric (<13 years)
Influenza-associated pediatric mortality
Legionellosis
Listeriosis
Lyme disease
Malaria
Measles
Meningococcal disease
Mumps
Pertussis
Plague
Poliomyelitis, paralytic
Psittacosis
Q fever
Rabies
    Rabies, animal
    Rabies, human
Rocky Mountain spotted fever
Rubella
Rubella, congenital syndrome
Salmonellosis
Severe acute respiratory syndrome-associated coronavirus (SARS-CoV) disease
Shiga toxin-producing escherichia coli (STEC)
Shigellosis
Smallpox
Streptococcal disease, invasive, group A
Streptococcal toxic-shock syndrome
Streptococcus pneumoniae, drug resistant, invasive disease
Streptococcus pneumoniae, invasive in children <5 years
Syphilis
    Syphilis, primary
    Syphilis, secondary
    Syphilis, latent
    Syphilis, early latent
    Syphilis, late latent
    Syphilis, latent, unknown duration
    Neurosyphilis
    Syphilis, latent, non-neurological
Syphilis, congenital
    Syphilitic stillbirth
Tetanus
Toxic-shock syndrome (other than streptococcal)
Trichinellosis (trichinosis)
Tuberculosis
Tularemia
Typhoid fever
Vancomycin—intermediate staphylococcus aureus (VISA)
Vancomycin—resistant staphylococcus aureus (VRSA)
Varicella (morbidity)
Varicella (deaths only)
Yellow fever
  • Tuberculosis—an airborne disease that usually affects the lungs but also can affect the bones and other organs (14,874 cases)

Table 7.2 shows the number of cases of these and other notifiable diseases reported to the CDC each month in 2003.

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