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National notifiable disease situation in December 2014

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Updated: 2015-01-22

In December 2014, there were a total of 556,111 notifiable disease reports in the Chinese mainland, with 1,710 deaths. There were no category A notifiable diseases. There were no reports of SARS, poliomyelitis, highly pathogenic avian influenza and diphtheria. A total of 283,364 cases in 22 category B notifiable diseases were reported, with 1,695 deaths. The most frequent attacks were from viral hepatitis, tuberculosis, syphilis, gonorrhea and scarlet fever, accounting for 92 percent of category B notifiable diseases.

At the same time, there were a total of 272,747 category C notifiable disease reports, with 15 deaths. The most frequent cases were from other infectious diarrheas, hand-foot-and-mouth disease, and influenza, accounting for 94 percent of category C notifiable diseases.

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National notifiable disease cases and death statistics in December 2014

Disease

Cases

Deaths**

Category A, B, C notifiable diseases 

556,111

1,710

Category A, B notifiable diseases

283,364

1,695

Pestilence

0

0

Cholera

0

0

SARS

0

0

AIDS

5,411

1,410

Viral hepatitis

114,890

41

Hepatitis A

2,733

1

Hepatitis B

88,397

31

Hepatitis C

18,893

8

Hepatitis E

2,238

1

Unidentified hepatitis

2,629

0

Poliomyelitis

0

0

Highly pathogenic avian influenza

0

0

Measles

1,485

1

Epidemic hemorrhagic fever

1,454

10

Rabies

87

78

Epidemic encephalitis B

12

0

Dengue

180

0

Anthrax

14

0

Bacterial and amebic dysentery

7,605

0

Tuberculosis

93,000

141

Typhoid fever and paratyphoid fever

918

0

Epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis

11

0

Whooping cough

298

0

Diphtheria

0

0

Neonatal tetanus

34

1

Scarlet fever

8,615

0

Brucellosis

3,304

0

Gonorrhea

9,101

2

Syphilis

36,372

5

Leptospirosis

207

1

Blood flukes

135

0

Malaria

212

1

H7N9 bird flu

19

4

Category C notifiable disease

272,747

15

Influenza

25,477

1

Mumps

14,085

1

Rubella

496

0

Acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis

2,390

0

Lepriasis

73

0

Typhus fever

112

0

Black fever

59

0

Hydatid disease

380

0

Filariasis

0

0

Other infectious diarrheas

123,019

3

Hand-foot-and-mouth disease

106,656

10

* Viral hepatitis attacks 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.

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