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	616	620	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		362	445	462	492	431	489	471	437	443	367	397	397	5193
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		1420	1381	1269	1276	1269	2109	3884	9012	16945	4616	1960	2858	47999

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.
§ An additional probable case of Psittacosis was notified in January 2009.

Remarks:

Persons affected in food poisoning cases were excluded in the monthly total and grand total.
Information as at 10 October 2011

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