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Summary of Notifiable Diseases
United States 1996
Foreword
This publication contains summary tables of the official
statistics for the reported occurrence of nationally notifiable diseases
in the United States for 1996. These statistics are collected and compiled
from reports to the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System
(NNDSS), which is operated by CDC in collaboration with the Council
of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE). Because the dates
of onset and dates of diagnosis for notifiable diseases may not always
be reported, these surveillance data are presented by the week that
they were reported to CDC by public health officials in state and territorial
health departments. These data are finalized and published in the MMWR
Summary of Notifiable Diseases, United States for use by state and
local health departments; schools of medicine and public health; communications
media; local, state, and federal agencies; and other agencies or persons
interested in following the trends of reportable diseases in the United
States. The annual publication of the Summary also documents which
diseases are considered national priorities for notification and the
annual number of cases of such diseases.
Part 1 contains information regarding morbidity for each
of the diseases considered nationally notifiable during 1996. The tables
provide the number of cases of notifiable diseases reported to CDC
for 1996, as well as the distribution of cases by month and geographic
location, and by patient's age, sex, race, and Hispanic ethnicity.
The data are final totals as of July 25, 1997, unless otherwise noted.
Because no cases of anthrax were reported in the United States during
1996, this nationally notifiable disease does not appear in the tables
in Part 1. Nationally notifiable diseases that are reportable in fewer
than 40 states also do not appear in these tables. In all tables, leprosy
is listed as Hansen disease, and tick-borne typhus fever is listed
as Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF).
Part 2 contains graphs and maps. These graphs and maps
depict summary data for many of the notifiable diseases that are described
in tabular form in Part 1.
Part 3 includes tables that list the number of cases
of notifiable diseases reported to CDC since 1967. It also includes
a table enumerating deaths associated with specified notifiable diseases
reported to the National Center for Health Statistics, CDC, during
1986-1995.
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