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Department of Health

The Centre for Health
Protection is a
professional arm of the
Department of Health for
disease prevention and
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Number of notifications for notifiable infectious diseases in 2008

Disease Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Total
Cholera 0 0 0 1                 1
Plague 0 0 0 0                 0
Yellow Fever 0 0 0 0                 0
Acute Poliomyelitis 0 0 0 0                 0
Amoebic Dysentery 2 1 0 0                 3
Bacillary Dysentery 2 2 20 23                 47
Chickenpox 1759 1053 671 512                 3995
Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection 15 20 14 23                 72
Dengue Fever 3 4 0 4                 11
Diphtheria 0 0 0 0                 0
Food Poisoning Outbreaks 24 43 27 24                 118
Persons affected 101 140 83 74                 398
Influenza A(H5) ,
Influenza A(H7) or
Influenza A(H9)
0 0 0 0                 0
Japanese Encephalitis 0 0 0 0                 0
Legionnaires′ Disease 0 0 0 1                 1
Leprosy 0 0 0 0                 0
Malaria 0 0 1 2                 3
Measles 1 7 7 9                 24
Meningococcal Infections 0 0 0 0                 0
Mumps 17 12 8 9                 46
Paratyphoid Fever 1 1 1 3                 6
Rabies 0 0 0 0                 0
Relapsing Fever 0 0 0 0                 0
Rubella 2 1 7 4                 14
Scarlet Fever 25 19 38 24                 106
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome 0 0 0 0                 0
Streptococcus suis
Infection
1 0 1 0                 2
Tetanus 0 0 0 0                 0
Tuberculosis 539 378 454 569                 1940
Typhoid Fever 3 1 3 5                 12
Typhus Scrub 0 2 0 1                 3
Urban 0 0 0 0                 0
Viral Hepatitis A 5 6 4 7                 22
B 5 5 3 6                 19
C 0 0 0 0                 0
E 14 4 13 19                 50
Unclassified 0 1 0 0                 1
Whooping Cough 2 8 2 5                 17
Total 2420 1568 1274 1251 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6513

Remarks :
Persons affected in food poisoning cases were excluded in the monthly total and grand total.
Information as at 10 May 2008
Uploaded on 30 May 2008


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