Infectious Disease

• Number of new tuberculosis cases: 9,105 (2017)
• Number of new salmonella cases: 54,285 (2017)
• Number of new Lyme disease cases: 42,743 (2017)
• Number of new meningococcal disease cases: 353 (2017)

Source: Health, United States, 2018, table 10 pdf icon[PDF – 9.8 MB]

• Number of visits to physician offices with infectious and parasitic diseases as the primary diagnosis: 15.5 million

Source: National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2016 National Summary Tables, table 14 pdf icon[PDF – 793 KB]

• Number of emergency department visits with infectious and parasitic diseases as the primary diagnosis: 3.4 million
• Number of emergency department visits resulting in hospital admission with a principal hospital discharge diagnosis of infectious and parasitic diseases: 523,000

Source: 2018 NHAMCS Public Use File

• Ambulatory Health Care Data
• Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Summary of Notifiable Diseases
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseasesexternal icon