Report on notifiable diseases in July 2018

(en.nhc.gov.cn)

Updated: 2018-08-15

In July 2018, the number of cases of notifiable diseases reported in the Chinese mainland was 866,072, with 1,833 deaths.

Cholera, a category A infectious disease, had six cases and no death report. Plague, the other category A infectious disease, had no cases.

Category B infectious diseases, excluding severe acute respiratory syndrome, highly pathogenic avian influenza, H7N9 avian influenza, diphtheria, and poliomyelitis, had 321,266 cases with 1,828 deaths.

The five infectious diseases in category B with the largest number of cases were viral hepatitis, phthisis, syphilis, dysentery, and gonorrhea. They accounted for 93.00 percent of all cases in that category.

Category C infectious diseases, excluding filariasis, had 544,800 cases with five deaths.

The first three Category C infectious diseases in terms of the number of cases were hand-foot-and-mouth disease, infectious diarrhea, and mumps, which accounted for 96.00 percent of all category C cases.