National notifiable diseases overview in March 2014

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Cases and death statistics of national notifiable diseases in March 2014

Disease	Cases	Death count**
Category A, B, C (in total)	559,816	1,366
Infectious diseases of Category A and B (in total)	317,042	1,323
Pestilence	0	0
Cholera	0	0
SARS	0	0
AIDS	4,221	1,011
Viral hepatitis *	128,965	54
Hepatitis A	2,113	0
Hepatitis B	99,292	38
Hepatitis C	21,064	9
Hepatitis E	3,297	3
Uncategorized hepatitis	3,199	4
Polio	0	0
Highly pathogenic avian influenza	0	0
Measles	7,864	4
Epidemic hemorrhagic fever	1,008	4
Rabies	72	57
Epidemic encephalitis B	2	1
Dengue	17	0
Anthrax	10	0
Bacterial and amebic dysentery	8,165	1
Tuberculosis	111,975	153
Typhoid fever and paratyphoid fever	846	0
Epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis	25	2
Whooping cough	164	0
Diphtheria	0	0
Neonatal tetanus	35	1
Scarlatina	2,890	0
Brucellosis	4,934	0
Gonorrhoea	6,782	0
Syphilis	38,252	10
Leptospirosis	5	0
Blood flukes	617	0
Malaria	169	1
H7N9 avian influenza	24	24***
Category C infectious diseases (in total)	242,774	43
Influenza	27,262	7
Mumps	13,658	0
Rubella	1,897	0
Acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis	2,731	0
Lepriasis	86	0
Typhus fever	74	0
Kala-azar	16	0
Hydatid disease	385	0
Filariasis disease	0	0
Other infectious diarrheas	43,524	2
Hand-foot-and-mouth disease	153,141	34

* Numbers of viral hepatitis cases and deaths are the total cases and deaths of hepatitis A, B, C, E and uncategorized hepatitis.

* * China’s death cause ranking is not based on death data from the network-based infectious disease reporting system

* * * Out of the 24 death cases, five were new cases reported this month, and the other 19 cases were reported in the past.