Infectious Disease

(Data are for the U.S.)

 

Morbidity

• Number of new tuberculosis cases: 11,182 (2010)
• Number of new salmonella cases: 54,424 (2010)
• Number of new Lyme disease cases: 30,158 (2010)
• Number of new meningococcal disease cases: 833 (2010)

Source: Health, United States, 2012 table 39 [PDF - 9.8 MB]

 

Health care use

Ambulatory care

• Number of visits to office-based physicians for infectious and parasitic diseases: 23.6 million

Source: National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2010 Summary Tables, table 12 [PDF - 382 KB]

• Number of hospital outpatient department visits for infectious and parasitic diseases: 3.2 million

Source: National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2010 Outpatient Department Summary Tables, table 10 [PDF - 330 KB]

 

More data

• AIDS/HIV
• Infectious Disease Prevalence in Los Angeles County–A Comparison to National Estimates, 1999–2004
• Influenza
• Immunization
• Measles
• Pneumonia
• Sexually Transmitted Diseases
• Viral hepatitis
• Whopping cough/Pertussis
• Health, United States trend tables with data on infectious disease
• Key statistics from NHANES
• 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 [PDF - 475 KB]