CLIPBOARD : Notifiable Diseases Report
Each week the Orange County Public Health Department reports to the state the incidence of various notifiable diseases in the county. The following table details a selection of these afflictions for January, the most recent month for which information is available:
NUMBER OF CASES % Change January January Jan. 1991- Disease 1992 1991 Jan. 1992 Acquired immune deficiency 93 33 +182 syndrome (AIDS) Campylobacter 21 14 +50 Chlamydial infections 377 326 +16 Lapse of consciousness 115 160 -28 (not related to alcohol) Giardiasis 39 35 +11 Gonococcal infection 165 98 +68 Hepatitis A 20 28 -29 Hepatitis B 100 66 +51 Meningitis 20 19 +5 Non-specific urethritis 152 223 -32 Salmonellosis 33 29 +14 Shigellosis 26 29 -10 Syphilis 25 52 -52 Tuberculosis 53 33 +61 TOTAL NOTIFIABLE DISEASES* 1,391 1,519 -8
* Includes diseases other than those shown above
Source: Orange County Public Health Department, “Reported Cases of Specified Notifiable Diseases,” for January, 1992.
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