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Notifiable Disease Report
Kent County Health Department
700 Fuller N.E.
Grand Rapids, Michigan 49503

www.accesskent.com/health		 Communicable Disease Section
  phone (616) 632-7228
  fax (616) 632-7085
April 2004
Notifiable diseases reported for Kent County residents through end of month listed above.
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIED NOTIFIABLE DISEASES
DISEASE
NUMBER REPORTED
MEDIAN CUMULATIVE
This Month
Cumulative 2004
Through Apr. 1999-2003
AIDS (Cumulative Total - 642)
5
7
13
AMEBIASIS*
0
0
0
CAMPYLOBACTER
2
8
10
CHICKEN POX
11
52
90
CHLAMYDIA
313
1014
N/A
E. coli O157:H7
0
0
2
GIARDIASIS
8
20
24
GONORRHEA
105
422
351
GUILLIAN-BARRE SYNDROME
0
0
0
HEPATITIS A
0
1
4
HEPATITIS B
0
0
2
HEPATITIS C (Acute)
0
0
0
HEPATITIS C (Chronic/Unknown)
0
94
N/A
INFLUENZA-LIKE ILLNESS
1169
8173
13120
MENINGITIS, ASEPTIC
0
6
1
MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL
0
4
3
MUMPS
0
0
0
PERTUSSIS
1
4
2
SALMONELLOSIS
0
12
14
SHIGELLOSIS
1
2
3
SYPHILIS
3
3
0
TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME
0
1
0
TUBERCULOSIS
3
6
4
NOTIFIABLE DISEASES OF LOW FREQUENCY
DISEASE
NUMBER REPORTED
Cumulative 2004
STREPTOCOCCAL DISEASE, GROUP A, INVASIVE
4
KAWASAKI SYNDROME
1
BRUCELLOSIS
1

NOTES:
Hepatitis B statistics include only acute symptomatic cases.
Syphilis statistics include only primary and secondary syphilis.
Bacterial meningitis statistics include meningitis cases reported as: haemophilus influenzae disease; meningitis - other, bacterial; meningococcal disease; and streptococcal disease - invasive (Group A).

N/A - Data to calculate five-year median cumulative number of cases is not available.
*Previously reported cases were ruled out upon further evaluation.