Weeks 1-8 Cases & Rates
REPORTED CASES 1 WITH INCIDENCE RATES
PER 100,000 POPULATION
COMMUNICABLE DISEASES
ALL CAREC MEMBER COUNTRIES a
Reporting Period: Weeks 1 - 8 of 1996 and 1997
| Year | Year | |||||||||
| 1996 | 1997 | 1996 | 1997 | |||||||
| DISEASE | CASES | RATES | CASES | RATES | DISEASE | CASES | RATES | CASES | RATES | |
| AIDS* | - | - | - | - | Meningococcal Infection | 2 | 0.0 | 1 | 0.0 | |
| Acute Flaccid Paralysis | 4 | 0.1 | 4 | 0.1 | Mumps | 90 | 1.4 | 58 | 1.1 | |
| Acute Respiratory Infection (< 5 yrs. old) |
4,592 | 662.9 | 2,402 | 429.9 | Paratyphoid Fever | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Chlamydial Infection | 17 | 0.3 | 94 | 1.8 | Pertussis (or Whooping cough) | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Cholera | 2 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | Plague | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Ciguatera Poisoning | 78 | 1.2 | 57 | 1.1 | Poliomyelitis, acute | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Congenital Rubella Syndrome | 0 | 0.0 | 4 | 0.1 | Rabies in man | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Congenital Syphilis | 1 | 0.0 | 5 | 0.1 | Rubella (German Measles) | 7 | 0.1 | 149 | 2.8 | |
| Dengue Fever | 398 | 6.1 | 99 | 1.9 | Salmonellosis | 27 | 0.4 | 20 | 0.4 | |
| Dengue Haemorrhagic Fever | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0.0 | Scabies | 1,371 | 21.2 | 980 | 18.6 | |
| Diphtheria | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0.0 | Shigellosis | 7 | 0.1 | 24 | 0.5 | |
| Food-borne Illness | 231 | 3.6 | 174 | 3.3 | Syphilis | 121 | 1.9 | 59 | 1.1 | |
| Gastro-enteritis (<5 yrs. old) |
5,799 | 837.2 | 8,911 | 1,594.7 | Tetanus (excluding neonatal) | 4 | 0.1 | 1 | 0.0 | |
| Gastro-enteritis (>= 5yrs old) |
1,660 | 28.7 | 3,456 | 65.1 | Tetanus Neonatorum | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Genital Discharge Syndrome | 5,908 | 91.2 | 48 | 0.9 | Tuberculosis - All forms | 93 | 1.4 | 50 | 0.9 | |
| Genital Ulcer Syndrome | 0 | 0.0 | 4 | 0.1 | Typhoid Fever | 4 | 0.1 | 1 | 0.0 | |
| Gonococcal Infections | 318 | 4.9 | 77 | 1.5 | Viral Encephalitis | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Influenza | 12,977 | 200.4 | 6,754 | 128.2 | Viral Hepatitis - B | 33 | 0.5 | 44 | 0.8 | |
| Leprosy (or Hansen's Disease) | 3 | 0.0 | 4 | 0.1 | Viral Hepatitis - Unspecified | 81 | 1.3 | 31 | 0.6 | |
| Leptospirosis | 149 | 2.3 | 20 | 0.4 | Viral Hepatitis A | 3 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Malaria | 1,478 | 22.8 | 595 | 11.3 | Yellow fever - urban | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Measles | 33 | 0.5 | 165 | 2.5 | Yellow Fever- sylvatic | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Meningitis | 28 | 0.4 | 18 | 0.3 | ||||||
