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Number of notifications for notifiable infectious diseases in 2010

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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
Anthrax 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bacillary dysentery 2 1 2 5 4 8 17 18 9 7 2 3 78
Botulism 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Chickenpox 789 564 723 658 937 1281 1046 582 634 1042 1632 1713 11601
Chikungunya fever 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 2
Cholera 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 5 0 0 0 1 9
Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection 23 31 27 41 24 48 43 54 50 64 41 49 495
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 6
Dengue fever 4 3 5 5 6 8 4 18 16 7 6 1 83
Diphtheria 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Enterovirus 71 infection 2 2 4 13 17 24 20 11 6 0 2 0 101
Escherichia coli O157:H7 infection 0 0 1 0 2 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 6
Food poisoning Outbreaks 22 13 24 19 33 59 39 27 31 18 12 19 316
Persons affected 52 62 67 49 130 190 139 101 102 64 44 56 1056
Haemophilus influenzae type b infection (invasive) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
Hantavirus infection 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 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 1 0 1
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 0 0 0
Swine Influenza* 1092 469 573 148 104 26 79 151 71 9 - - 2722
Japanese encephalitis 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Legionnaires' disease 2 2 3 2 1 5 0 1 0 1 2 1 20
Leprosy 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2
Leptospirosis 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 1 0 0 1 1 7
Listeriosis 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 3 0 0 6
Malaria 0 1 1 1 1 3 11 8 4 2 1 1 34
Measles 1 3 2 2 1 0 1 2 1 0 0 0 13
Meningococcal infection (invasive) 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2
Mumps 10 6 13 10 17 18 14 19 22 10 14 13 166
Paratyphoid fever 1 1 3 2 2 3 6 2 0 2 3 1 26
Plague 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Psittacosis 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Q fever 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
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 0 3 3 3 5 4 6 5 2 4 2 1 38
Congenital rubella syndrome 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Scarlet fever 11 12 11 7 9 8 7 4 10 8 14 27 128
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		 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 2 2 0 1 10
Tetanus 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tuberculosis 368 352 489 398 419 490 456 426 435 457 424 418 5132
Typhoid fever 3 0 4 1 3 3 5 2 6 1 0 1 29
Typhus and other rickettsial diseases Scrub typhus 0 1 2 0 3 3 0 4 0 1 3 0 17
Urban typhus 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2
Spotted fever 2 1 1 1 0 6 2 2 0 2 2 3 22
Unclassified 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 3
Viral haemorrhagic fever 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Viral hepatitis A 4 5 9 4 3 5 4 6 7 5 9 4 65
B 7 4 4 8 10 7 5 5 9 1 7 6 73
C 2 0 2 1 0 0 2 1 1 0 1 1 11
E 11 18 20 8 5 7 11 5 7 7 8 11 118
West Nile Virus Infection 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Whooping cough 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 1 5
Yellow fever 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total 2359 1496 1931 1341 1609 2018 1782 1367 1327 1656 2190 2279 21355

Note:
* Swine Influenza has been removed from the list of statutory notifiable infectious diseases since 8 October 2010.

Remarks:
Persons affected in food poisoning cases were excluded in the monthly total and grand total.
Information as at 10 August 2011.
Uploaded on 26 August 2011.

 
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Last revison date: 2011/08/26