Number of notifiable infectious diseases by month in 2003

Disease		Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Total
Cholera		0	0	0	0	0	1	2	2	1	0	0	1	7
Plague		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Yellow Fever		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Acute Poliomyelitis		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Amoebic Dysentery		0	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	2	9	16
Bacillary Dysentery		8	11	8	5	9	5	10	17	8	8	16	11	116
Chickenpox		1376	1084	783	265	214	94	149	145	242	495	864	1069	6780
Dengue Fever		5	5	0	1	4	4	4	12	6	3	1	4	49
Diphtheria		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Food Poisoning	Outbreaks	39	37	10	8	19	34	43	57	49	41	31	54	422
Food Poisoning	Persons affected	131	205	116	37	70	114	165	242	415	353	176	206	2230
Legionnaires′ Disease		0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	3
Leprosy		2	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	1	0	1	7
Malaria		2	2	3	4	3	2	1	4	4	2	1	0	28
Measles		3	8	2	2	1	2	1	5	1	5	3	0	33
Meningococcal Infections		1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	3
Mumps		9	6	12	8	11	7	11	6	15	15	10	11	121
Paratyphoid Fever		3	2	3	4	7	11	13	0	5	3	4	5	60
Rabies(Human)		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Relapsing Fever		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Rubella		3	2	0	3	0	0	1	2	1	2	2	3	19
Scarlet Fever		15	12	12	5	1	2	1	2	3	3	1	6	63
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome *		NA	NA	610	979	150	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	1755
Tetanus		0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	3
Tuberculosis		437	449	606	466	464	550	515	513	451	553	500	520	6024
Typhoid Fever		10	6	6	4	5	4	3	3	5	3	0	0	49
Typhus Fever		0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	4	5	2	14
Viral Hepatitis	A	3	11	16	4	5	14	7	15	7	9	11	5	107
	B	15	5	6	6	3	8	4	7	9	14	9	12	98
	C	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	E	2	2	4	1	3	2	1	1	0	1	0	2	19
	Unclassified	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	1	1	8
Whooping Cough		0	0	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	5
Total		1934	1646	2089	1765	900	757	771	796	808	1166	1461	1716	15809

Notes :
* Notifiable since 27 March 2003
NA Not applicable

Remark :
Persons affected in Food poisoning outbreaks were excluded in the monthly total and grand total.

Uploaded on 26 August 2005