- 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
| TABLE 7.1 | |
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| 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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