Report on notifiable diseases in October 2018

(en.nhc.gov.cn)

Updated: 2018-11-15

In October 2018, the number of cases of notifiable diseases reported in the Chinese mainland was 604,282, with 2,138 deaths.

Cholera, a category A infectious disease, had one case 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 284,539 cases with 2,130 deaths.

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

Category C infectious diseases, excluding filariasis, had 319,742 cases with eight 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 94.00 percent of all category C cases.