Communicable Disease in New York City - Rate Per 100,000 of Selected Diseases by Diagnosis Date: 1992 - 2001

Disease Year Diagnosed
1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001
Aids 147.5 173.3 167.0 156.5 125.3 97.1 69.9 62.8 64.4 52.65
Amebiasis 6.5 9.7 9.6 13.4 11.8 11.4 13.3 11.6 8.5 7.6
Babesiosis 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.2
Campylobacteriosis 16 17.6 18.3 17.3 17 14.3 13.1 9.9 11.6 9.1
Encephalitis 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.2 2.0 2.4 2.2
Giardiasis 15.2 26.5 33.6 33.9 31.2 24.3 26.7 25.8 23.4 19.1
Gonorrhea 296.5 252.3 262.8 223.4 177.5 193.8 165.4 166.7 145.7 157.5
Haemophilus Influenzae 1 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.8 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 0.7
Hepatitis A 12.3 14.1 12.9 13.8 8.5 12.6 8.1 5.6 7.1 5.7
Hepatitis B 6.1 6.4 7.5 6.8 6.9 6.3 5.8 4.1 7.5 8.4
Kawasaki Syndrome 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.3 0.1 0.1 0.0
Legionellosis 2 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.6 0.5
Lyme Disease 1.6 2.9 1.3 6.4 5.6 2.7 3.4 2.2 2.4 1.2
Malaria 2.3 2.0 1.4 3.0 3.7 4.2 3.3 3.2 3.1 3.1
Measles 0.9 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.1
Meningitis Viral 2.5 3.7 2.0 2.1 1.7 2.1 2.9 4.2 5.5 6.3
Meningococcal 1 0.4 0.5 0.5 0.7 0.8 0.8 0.5 0.8 0.6 0.5
Bacterial Meningitis 2.0 2.7 2.8 3.5 3.2 2.9 2.5 2.1 2.3 1.1
Mumps 0.2 0.0 0.2 0.1 0.2 0.0 2.1 0.0 0.1 0.1
Pertussis 0.3 1.6 3.0 0.5 0.8 0.6 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1
RMSF 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.3 0.1 0.0 0 0.0 0.0
Rubella 0 0.3 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1
Salmonellosis 3 25.1 27.5 25.8 29.7 26.3 24.2 23.9 20.5 16.1 17.0
Shigellosis 10.4 9.2 13.8 11.6 8.6 12.9 9.3 5.0 12.7 5.2
Syphilis Early 104.1 66.6 40.7 31.0 16.2 10.1 9.7 7.5 7.0 10.4
Toxic Shock Syndrome 0 0.0 0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Tuberculosis 4 52 44.2 40.9 33.4 28.0 23.6 21.3 19.9 17.9 15.7
Typhoid Fever 0.7 1.4 1.1 0.9 0.9 0.7 0.8 0.7 0.8 0.6
Yersiniosis 0.7 0.6 0.7 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.4 0.3 0.3 0.2

1Case definition require positive culture from blood, spinal, or other sterile sites
2Beginning 1991 only confirmed cases reported
3Salmonellosis nontyphoidal
4Revised in 1978 to include persons with verified disease in past or lost to supervision for more than 12 months and had disease again
5Provisional data