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Number of notifications for notifiable infectious diseases in 2009

Disease Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Total
Acute poliomyelitis 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Amoebic dysentery 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 6
Anthrax 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bacillary dysentery 8 6 6 3 4 8 10 12 11 11 4 3 86
Botulism 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Chickenpox 908 783 618 618 673 704 339 246 251 319 571 747 6777
Chikungunya fever* - - 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Cholera 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection 22 30 29 29 22 38 31 37 39 35 20 36 368
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 6
Dengue fever 0 3 4 8 5 1 2 2 3 4 8 3 43
Diphtheria 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Enterovirus 71 infection* - - 9 8 3 1 2 2 1 3 2 0 31
Escherichia coli O157:H7 infection 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 2
Food poisoning Outbreaks 31 34 45 22 24 27 53 59 33 35 14 30 407
Persons affected 104 150 146 79 63 112 177 207 131 159 41 171 1540
Haemophilus influenzae type b infection (invasive) 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
Hantavirus infection 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Influenza A Influenza A (H2) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Influenza A (H5) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Influenza A (H7) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Influenza A (H9) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2
Swine Influenza - - - 0 23 762 2887 8135 16090 3780 901 1596 34174
Japanese encephalitis 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Legionnaires' disease 2 2 1 3 1 3 8 9 0 5 3 0 37
Leprosy 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 4
Leptospirosis 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 2 0 1 9
Listeriosis 3 2 1 5 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 14
Malaria 0 1 0 1 3 1 4 5 3 3 2 0 23
Measles 4 6 6 1 1 2 1 2 1 1 1 0 26
Meningococcal infection (invasive) 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2
Mumps 14 11 21 9 13 18 8 12 13 15 11 10 155
Paratyphoid fever 2 4 3 2 0 3 5 1 3 1 1 1 26
Plague 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Psittacosis 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1
Q fever 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4
Rabies 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Relapsing fever 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Rubella and congenital rubella syndrome Rubella 2 6 13 1 2 4 2 3 3 5 1 0 42
Congenital rubella syndrome 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Scarlet fever 29 15 22 30 32 12 9 6 12 6 7 7 187
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Smallpox 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Streptococcus suis
infection		 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 2 0 6
Tetanus 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Tuberculosis 373 464 476 499 439 501 481 445 453 383 413 421 5348
Typhoid fever 4 4 3 3 8 12 22 9 12 5 1 6 89
Typhus and other rickettsial diseases Scrub typhus 0 1 0 2 1 1 3 5 4 2 1 0 20
Urban typhus 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0 5
Spotted fever 2 1 1 2 0 1 4 0 1 1 0 0 13
Unclassified 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 2
Viral haemorrhagic fever 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Viral hepatitis A 5 3 8 10 6 7 9 5 1 6 1 3 64
B 13 4 7 8 5 8 5 12 5 6 2 5 80
C 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 3
E 4 17 7 8 5 1 3 6 6 3 3 10 73
West Nile Virus Infection 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Whooping cough 2 1 1 3 4 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 15
Yellow fever 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total 1431 1400 1285 1281 1277 2121 3894 9020 16955 4632 1976 2882 48154

Notes:
*Chikungunya fever and enterovirus 71 infection have been listed as notifiable diseases since 6 March 2009.
Swine Influenza has been listed as notifiable disease since 27 April 2009.
The cases notified in November and December are both H9N2 infection.

Remarks:

Persons affected in food poisoning cases were excluded in the monthly total and grand total.
Information as at 10 July 2010

Uploaded on 21 July 2010

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Last revison date: 2010/07/21