In July 2014, there were a total of 776,608 notifiable disease reports in the Chinese mainland, with 1,374 deaths. There were less than 10 category A notifiable diseases, including a rat plague death case and five cholera outbreaks. There were no SARS, poliomyelitis, highly pathogenic avian influenza and diphtheria reports. A total of 326,416 cases in 22 category B notifiable diseases were reported, with 1,294 deaths. The most frequent attacks were from viral hepatitis, tuberculosis, syphilis, bacterial and amebic dysentery, and gonorrhea, accounting for 92 percent of category B notifiable diseases.
At the same time, there were a total of 450,192 category C notifiable disease reports, with 80 deaths. The most frequent attacks were from hand-foot-and-mouth disease, other infectious diarrheas and mumps, accounting for 96 percent of category C notifiable diseases.
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National notifiable disease case and death statistics in July 2014
Disease |
Cases |
Deaths** |
Category A, B, C notifiable diseases |
776,608 |
1,374 |
Category A, B notifiable diseases |
326,416 |
1,294 |
Pestilence |
1 |
1 |
Cholera |
5 |
0 |
SARS |
0 |
0 |
AIDS |
4,3 54 |
979 |
Viral hepatitis |
12 2, 3 54 |
48 |
Hepatitis A |
2,1 92 |
0 |
Hepatitis B |
95, 6 48 |
32 |
Hepatitis C |
19, 4 39 |
13 |
Hepatitis E |
2,0 62 |
1 |
Unidentified hepatitis |
3,0 13 |
2 |
Poliomyelitis |
0 |
0 |
Highly pathogenic avian influenza |
0 |
0 |
Measles |
5,0 83 |
3 |
Epidemic hemorrhagic fever |
836 |
1 |
Rabies |
86 |
84 |
Epidemic encephalitis B |
251 |
11 |
Dengue |
155 |
0 |
Anthrax |
48 |
1 |
Bacterial and amebic dysentery |
22, 3 11 |
1 |
Tuberculosis |
10 5, 7 82 |
148 |
Typhoid fever and paratyphoid fever |
1,6 62 |
0 |
Epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis |
15 |
0 |
Whooping cough |
418 |
0 |
Diphtheria |
0 |
0 |
Neonatal tetanus |
51 |
2 |
Scarlet fever |
3,8 73 |
0 |
Brucellosis |
8,1 02 |
0 |
Gonorrhea |
8,9 18 |
0 |
Syphilis |
41, 2 81 |
10 |
Leptospirosis |
26 |
0 |
Blood flukes |
463 |
0 |
Malaria |
340 |
2 |
H7N9 bird flu |
1 |
3 |
Category C notifiable disease |
450,192 |
80 |
Influenza |
14, 0 56 |
0 |
Mumps |
20, 0 09 |
0 |
Rubella |
915 |
0 |
Acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis |
3,9 23 |
0 |
Lepriasis |
54 |
0 |
Typhus fever |
187 |
0 |
Black fever |
20 |
0 |
Hydatid disease |
380 |
0 |
Filariasis |
0 |
0 |
Other infectious diarrheas |
89, 1 71 |
7 |
Hand-foot-and-mouth disease |
32 1, 4 77 |
73 |
* 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.
Link: China's Central Government / World Health Organization / United Nations Population Fund / UNICEF in China
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