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Summary of Notifiable Diseases — United States, 2010

Summary of Notifiable Diseases — United States, 2010

Weekly

June 1, 2012 / 59(53);1-111

Prepared by

Deborah A. Adams, Coordinator, 1

Kathleen M. Gallagher, D.Sc, MPH, Division Director1

Ruth Ann Jajosky, DMD, MPH1

Jennifer Ward, MS1

Pearl Sharp1

Willie J. Anderson1

John P. Abellera, MPH1

Aaron E. Aranas, MPH, MBA1

Michelle Mayes1

Michael S. Wodajo1

Diana H. Onweh1

Meeyoung Park2

1Division of Notifiable Diseases and Healthcare Information (proposed), the Office of Surveillance, Epidemiology, and and Laboratory Services, CDC

2McKing Consulting Corporation

Preface

The Summary of Notifiable Diseases United States, 2010 contains the official statistics, in tabular and graphic form, for the reported occurrence of nationally notifiable infectious diseases in the United States for 2010. Unless otherwise noted, the data are final totals for 2010, reported as of June 30, 2011. These statistics are collected and compiled from reports sent by state health departments and territories to the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS), which is operated by CDC in collaboration with the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE). The is available at http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/mmwr_su/mmwr_nd/. This site also includes publications from previous years.
The Highlights section presents noteworthy epidemiologic and prevention information from 2010 for selected diseases and additional information to aid in the interpretation of surveillance and disease-trend data. Part 1 contains tables illustrating incidence data for the nationally notifiable infectious diseases reported during 2010.* The tables provide the number of cases reported to CDC for 2010 and the distribution of cases by month, geographic location, and the patients' demographic characteristics (age, sex, race, and ethnicity). Part 2 contains graphs and maps that depict summary data for certain notifiable infectious diseases described in tabular form in Part 1. Part 3 contains tables that list the number of cases of notifiable diseases reported to CDC since 1979. This section also includes a table enumerating deaths associated with specified notifiable diseases reported to CDC's National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) during 2002–2008. The Selected Reading section presents general and disease-specific references for notifiable infectious diseases. These references provide additional information on surveillance and epidemiologic concerns, diagnostic concerns, and disease-control activities.
Comments and suggestions from readers are welcome. To increase the usefulness of future editions, comments regarding the current report and descriptions of how information is or could be used are invited. Comments should be sent to Data Operations Team NNDSS, Division of Notifiable Diseases and Healthcare Information (proposed), Public Health Surveillance and Informatics Program Office (proposed) at soib@cdc.gov.