National notifiable disease situation in January 2014

(en.nhfpc.gov.cn)

Updated: 2014-07-15

In January 2014 (from January 1 to January 31), there were a total of 457,766 notifiable disease reports in the Chinese mainland resulting in 1,157 deaths. There were no category A notifiable diseases or death reports and no SARS, poliomyelitis, highly pathogenic avian influenza and diphtheria reports. A total of 272,005 cases in 22 category B notifiable diseases were reported, with 1,136 deaths. The most frequent cases were from viral hepatitis, tuberculosis, syphilis, gonorrhea, bacterial and amebic dysentery, accounting for 95 percent of category B notifiable diseases.

At the same time, there were a total of 185,761 category C notifiable disease reports, with 21 deaths. The most frequent cases were from other infectious diarrheas, hand-foot-and-mouth disease and influenza, accounting for 90 percent of category C notifiable diseases.

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National notifiable disease case and death statistics in January 2014

* Viral hepatitis cases and deaths include hepatitis A, B, C, E and unidentified hepatitis.

**Death data from the infectious disease direct network report is not used to judge rank order of infectious disease death causes in China.