Australia's notifiable disease status, 2005: Annual report of the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System

Abstract

A numerical error in the table provided in Appendix 3 (Completeness of National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System data received, Australia, 2005, by state or territory) is addressed in an erratum (10.33321/cdi.2007.31.51) to this report. In 2005, 60 diseases and conditions were nationally notifiable in Australia. States and territories reported a total of 125,461 cases of communicable diseases to the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System: an increase of 10% on the number of notifications in 2004. In 2005, the most frequently notified diseases were sexually transmissible infections (51,557 notifications, 41% of total notifications), gastrointestinal diseases (29,422 notifications, 23%) and bloodborne diseases (19,278 notifications, 15%). There were 17,753 notifications of vaccine preventable diseases; 4,935 notifications of vectorborne diseases; 1,826 notification of other bacterial infections (legionellosis, leprosy, meningococcal infections and tuberculosis) and 687 notifications of zoonotic diseases. Commun Dis Intell 2007;31:1–70.