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Office of Communicable Diseases

Reported Cases of Selected Diseases, 2002-2006

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Diseases

Years

Five Yr Mean

Five Yr Median

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)

99

98

139

105

89 

106 

 99

Amebiasis

4

8

13

6

12

9

8

Babesiosis

30

25

48

43

61

41

43

Campylobacteriosis

155

176

148

143

137

152

148

Chlamydia

2832

3000

3442

3269

3142 

3137 

3142 

Cryptosporidosis

21

17

4

19

14

15

17

Shiga-toxin positive E. coli (including O157:H7)

13

4

16

9

9

10

9

Ehrlichiosis

71

89

88

24

23

53

63

Giardiasis

170

126

130

132

117

135

130

Gonorrhea

900

973

816

438

508 

 727

816 

Group A Streptococcal Disease

23

35

28

12

20

24

23

Group B Streptococcal Disease

22

32

28

47

44

35

32

Hepatitis A

34

17

24

19

16

22

19

Hepatitis B, acute

36

21

7

5

11 

16 

 11

Hepatitis C, acute

1

1

0

0

 1

 <1

 1

Legionnellosis

11

20

21

31

28

22

21

Lyme Disease

852

736

249

39

308

437

308

Malaria

12

7

11

10

4

9

10

Measles

0

0

0

0

 0

0

Meningococcal Disease

6

4

2

4

2

4

4

Mumps

0

0

0

0

 4

Pertussis

22

55

53

53

101 

 57

53 

Pneumococcal Disease

128

125

137

103

112

121

125

Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever

4

1

7

3

10

5

4

Rubella (including congenital rubella)

0

0

0

0

 0

 0

Salmonellosis

189

137

139

112

119

139

137

Shigellosis

20

22

21

23

18

21

21

Syphilis (congenital)

0

0

1

0

 0

0

 0

Syphilis (early latent)

9

7

15

5

 8

 7

Syphilis (late)

39

50

62

35

 51

 47

 50

Syphilis (primary and secondary)

13

33

26

24

 14

 22

24 

Tuberculosis

49

52

51

47

26 

 45

49 

 

 

 

 

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