Australia'S Notifiable Diseases Status, 2004, Annual Report Of The National Notifi Able Diseases Surveillance System

In 2004, 60 diseases and conditions were nationally notifiable in Australia. States and Territories reported a total of 110,929 cases of communicable diseases to the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS): an increase of 4 per cent on the number of notifications in 2003. In 2004, the most frequently notified diseases were sexually transmissible infections (46,762 cases; 42% of total notifications), gastrointestinal diseases (25,247 cases; 23% of total notifi cations) and bloodborne diseases (19,191 cases; 17% of total notifi cations). There were 13,206 notifi cations of vaccine preventable diseases, 6,000 notifi cations of vectorborne diseases, 1,799 notifi cations of other bacterial infections (includes, legionellosis, leprosy, meningococcal infections and tuberculosis) and 877 notifi cations of zoonotic diseases. Commun Dis Intell 2006; 30: 1-79.