National notifiable disease situation in 2013

(en.nhfpc.gov.cn)

Updated: 2014-07-15

In 2013 (from January 1 to December 31), there were a total of 6,416,418 notifiable disease cases and 16,592 deaths reports in the Chinese mainland, with the disease case rate reaching 473.87 per 100,000 people and the death rate reaching 1.23 per 100,000 people.

In 2013, there were 53 category A notifiable disease cases and one death report, with the disease attack rate at 0.0039 per 100,000 people, down by 30.36 percent year-on-year, and the death rate at 0.0001 per 100,000 people, leveling off with 2012. There were no SARS, poliomyelitis and diphtheria reports. A total of 3,057,410 cases in 23 category B notifiable diseases and 16,300 deaths were reported, with the disease case rate at 225.8 per 100,000 people and the death rate at 1.2 per 100,000 people, down by 5.43 percent and 3.00 percent, respectively. The most frequent attacks were from viral hepatitis, tuberculosis, syphilis, bacterial and amebic dysentery and gonorrhea, accounting for 93.26 percent of category B notifiable diseases. The top five diseases ranked on the death report were AIDS, tuberculosis, lupomania, virus hepatitis and epidemic hemorrhagic disease, accounting for 98.09 percent of category B notifiable disease deaths.

At the same time, there were a total of 3,358,955 category C notifiable disease cases and 291 death reports, with the disease case rate at 248.07 per 100,000 people and the death rate at 0.02 per 100,000 people, down 10.50 percent and 51.25 percent year-on-year, respectively. The most frequent attacks were from hand-foot-and-mouth disease, other infectious diarrheas, epidemic parotitis, influenza and acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis, accounting for 99.29 percent of category C notifiable diseases. The top three diseases that claimed the most lives were hand-foot-and-mouth disease, other infectious diarrheas and influenza, accounting for 98.28 percent of category C notifiable diseases.

The number of intestinal, respiratory, and blood and sexual infectious disease cases in category A and B dropped 7.84 percent, 3.31 percent and 6.89 percent, respectively, as compared with 2012. The number of naturally-occurring and insect-borne infectious disease cases rose 14.83 percent. Cholera, unidentified hepatitis, bacterial and amebic dysentery, and hepatitis A attacks all dropped. There were no SARS, diphtheria cases or death reports. The number of measles and epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis cases witnessed growth, and the number of scarlet fever, whooping cough and tuberculosis cases dropped. Gonorrhea, AIDS and hepatitis c cases were on the rise, while hepatitis b and syphilis cases decreased. There were no pestilence cases or death reports. The number of leptospirosis, anthrax, rabies and epidemic hemorrhagic fever cases declined, while cases from dengue, highly pathogenic avian influenza, malaria, epidemic encephalitis B, blood flukes and brucellosis increased.