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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
September 2003
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 2003 Through Oct. 1998-2002
AIDS (Cumulative Total - 633) 6 35 28
AMEBIASIS**** 0 0 1
CAMPYLOBACTER 0 30 46
CHICKEN POX 35 118 249
CHLAMYDIA 490 2325 N/A***
E. coli O157:H7 0 5 12
GIARDIASIS 4 83 76
GONORRHEA 109 774 1096
GUILLIAN-BARRE SYNDROME 0 0 1
HEPATITIS A 0 10 23
HEPATITIS B* 0 4 6
HEPATITIS C (Acute) 0 0 0
HEPATITIS C (Chronic/Unknown) 23 311 N/A***
INFLUENZA-LIKE ILLNESS 2152 19068 18828
MENINGITIS, ASEPTIC 4 17 11
MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL 0 3 9
MUMPS 0 0 0
PERTUSSIS 0 2 6
SALMONELLOSIS 0 24 49
SHIGELLOSIS 0 32 10
SYPHILIS** 2 5 2
TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME 0 0 0
TUBERCULOSIS 3 14 18
NOTIFIABLE DISEASES OF LOW FREQUENCY
DISEASE NUMBER REPORTED
Cumulative 2003
STREPTOCOCCAL DISEASE, GROUP A, INVASIVE 9
CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS 4
BRUCELLOSIS 3
COCCODIOIDOMYCOSIS
1
CRYPTOCOCCOPSIS
2
DENGUE FEVER
1
LEGIONELLOSIS
1
TULAREMIA****
0
ST. LOUIS ENCEPHALITIS**** 0

* Hepatitis B statistics since 1993 include only acute symptomatic cases; prior to 1993 Kent County statistics also included chronic infections.
** Syphilis statistics since 1992 include only primary and secondary syphilis; prior to 1992 statistics also included early latent syphilis.
*** Data to calculate five-year median cumulative number of cases is not available.