Infectious Disease

(Data are for the U.S.)

 

Morbidity

• Number of new tuberculosis cases: 13,299 (2007)
• Number of new salmonella cases: 47,995 (2007)
• Number of new Lyme disease cases: 27,444 (2007)
• Number of new meningococcal disease cases: 1,077 (2007)

Source: Health, United States, 2008 tables 50

 

Health care use

Ambulatory care

• Number of visits to office-based physicians for infectious and parasitic diseases: 22.2 million

Source: National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2006 Summary, table 11

• Number of hospital outpatient department visits for infectious and parasitic diseases: 3.9 million

Source: National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2006 Outpatient Department Summary, table 9

• Number of hospital emergency department visits for infectious and parasitic diseases: 3.3 million

Source: National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2006 Emergency Department Summary, table 10

 

More data

• AIDS/HIV
• Influenza
• Immunization
• Measles
• Pneumonia
• Sexually Transmitted Diseases
• Viral hepatitis
• Whopping cough/Pertussis
• Seroprevalence of six infectious diseases among adults in the United States by race/ethnicity: Data from the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1988-94