To track progress toward achieving the goals of the Childhood
Immunization
Initiative (CII), CDC publishes monthly a tabular summary
Table_1 of
the number of cases of all diseases preventable by routine
childhood
vaccination reported during the previous month and year-to-date
(provisional data). In addition, the table compares provisional
data with
final data for the previous year and highlights the number of
reported
cases among children aged <5 years, who are the primary focus of CII. Data in the table are reported through the National Electronic Telecommunications System for Surveil-lance (NETSS).
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Number of reported cases of diseases preventable by routine childhood vaccination
-- United States, September 1994 and 1994-1995 *
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No. cases among
Total cases children aged <5 years +
No. cases, January-September January-September
September ----------------- ------------------------
Disease 1995 1994 1995 1994 1995
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Congenital rubella
syndrome (CRS) 0 3 4 3 4
Diphtheria 0 2 0 1 0
Haemophilus influenzae & 82 850 885 238 209
Hepatitis B @ 824 8571 7165 97 55
Measles 9 860 267 203 95
Mumps 55 1097 615 172 120
Pertussis 675 2924 2936 1699 1708
Poliomyelitis,
paralytic ** 0 1 0 0 0
Rubella 4 208 128 24 17
Tetanus 4 28 23 0 2
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* Data for 1994 and 1995 are provisional.
+ For 1994 and 1995, age data were available for >=93% cases.
& Invasive disease; H. influenzae serotype is not routinely reported to the National Notifiable
Diseases Surveillance System. Of 209 cases among children aged <5 years, serotype was
reported for 54 cases, and of those, 32 were type b, the only serotype of H. influenzae
preventable by vaccination.
@ Because most hepatitis B virus infections among infants and children aged <5 years are
asymptomatic (although likely to become chronic), acute disease surveillance does not
reflect the incidence of this problem in this age group or the effectiveness of hepatitis B vac-
cination in infants.
** One case with onset in July 1994 has been confirmed; this case was vaccine-associated.
An additional six suspected cases are under investigation. In 1993, three of 10 suspected
cases were confirmed; two of the confirmed cases were vaccine-associated, and one was
imported. The imported case occurred in a 2-year-old Nigerian child brought to the United
States for care of his paralytic illness; no poliovirus was isolated from the child.
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