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The Northern Territory Disease Control Bulletin

Details:

Title

The Northern Territory Disease Control Bulletin

Creator

Territory Health Services, Centre for Disease Control

Collection

Northern Territory disease control bulletin; E-Journals; PublicationNT; Northern Territory disease control bulletin

Date

1998-12

Location

Casuarina

Notes

Date:1998-12; This publication contains may contain links to external sites. These external sites may no longer be active.; Made available via the Publications (Legal Deposit) Act 2004 (NT).

Language

English

Subject

Communicable diseases; Reporting; Northern Territory; Statistics; Periodicals

Publisher name

Northern Territory Government

Place of publication

Casuarina

Series

Northern Territory disease control bulletin

Volume

v. 5 no. 4

File type

application/pdf

ISSN

1440-883X

Use

Attribution International 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)

Copyright owner

Northern Territory Government

License

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/233674

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/656105

Page content

The Northern Territory Disease Control Bulletin Vol. 5 No. 4 December 1998 23 NT NOTIFICATIONS OF DISEASES BY DISTRICTS 1 JULY TO 30 SEPTEMBER 1998 AND 1997 DISEASES ALICE SPRINGS BARKLY DARWIN EAST ARNHEM KATHERINE TOTAL '98 '97 '98 '97 '98 '97 '98 '97 '98 '97 '98 '97 Acute Rheumatic Fever 2 3 0 0 3 0 3 0 4 1 12 4 Adverse Vaccine React. 1 2 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 4 2 Arbovirus infections Barmah Forest Virus 0 0 0 1 2 4 1 0 0 1 3 6 Dengue 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 Kunjin Virus 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 Ross River Virus 0 3 1 0 7 8 0 0 2 3 10 14 Campylobacter 17 12 0 0 21 32 5 1 4 1 47 46 Chlamydia 77 80 9 8 98 60 8 5 24 17 216 170 Cryptosporidium 8 - 0 - 5 - 0 - 0 0 13 Donovanosis 2 5 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 3 8 Gastroenteritis 0 0 0 0 0 3 29 0 0 0 29 3 Glomerulonephritis 5 2 0 0 0 4 2 0 0 0 7 6 Gonococcal Disease 104 137 9 13 125 32 29 9 63 18 330 209 Gonococcal Conjunct. 0 4 0 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 8 Haemophilus Inf type b 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 Hepatitis A 0 3 0 1 4 12 3 0 2 2 9 18 Hepatitis B 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 0 6 2 6 6 Hepatitis C (incidence) 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 Hepatitis C (prevalence) 5 12 2 1 65 83 1 0 5 1 78 97 HIV infections 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 HTLV-1 8 7 1 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 11 8 Legionnaires Disease 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 Leptospirosis 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 Malaria 0 4 0 0 3 2 0 0 0 0 3 6 Measles 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 Melioidosis 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 1 - 1 Meningococcal Infect. 6 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 6 4 Mumps 0 0 0 0 1 4 0 0 1 0 2 4 Pertussis 0 2 0 0 9 2 0 0 0 1 9 5 Pneumococcal Disease 13 22 0 0 5 7 0 0 0 1 18 30 Rotavirus 6 29 7 8 51 142 8 30 5 12 77 221 Rubella 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 Salmonella 14 13 1 3 48 31 8 25 9 10 80 82 Shigella 10 6 1 7 7 13 6 9 1 6 25 41 Syphilis 42 47 19 15 14 6 15 3 4 7 94 78 Tuberculosis 0 1 0 0 7 5 0 1 0 1 7 8 Yersiniosis 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 Total 320 397 50 63 488 462 118 84 134 88 1110 1094 Points to note regarding notifications: Australian Encephalitis (MVE, Kunjin), Amoebiasis, Botulism, Brucellosis, Chancroid, Cholera, Congenital Rubella Syndrome, Congenital Syphilis, Diphtheria, Gastroenteritis in an institution or food handler, Hepatitis D and E, Hydatid Disease, Leprosy, Leptospirosis, Listeriosis, Lymphogranuloma venereum, Poliomyelitis, Typhoid, Typhus, and Viral Haemorrhagic Fever are all notifiable but had "0" notifications in this period. It is unclear why there is a marked increase in gonococcal notifications from 1997 to 1998. The high numbers seen in the above quarter of 1997 as compared to that of 1998 are similar to those seen in the same quarter in 1995 and show the yearly variations observed in the NT with the cause being, uncertain. This is the third consecutive quarter to show a decrease in invasive pneumococcal disease. NOTIFIED CASES OF VACCINE PREVENTABLE DISEASES IN THE NT