Reported Infectious Morbidity in Houston
Houston Department of Health and Human Services			Disease Occurrence by EpiYear 1995-2004
Office of Surveillance and Public Health Preparedness
Bureau of Epidemiology
Disease                                      |                                 EpiYear	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004
General Surveillance
Amebiasis	6	17	18	10	8	18	10	5	23	120
Anthrax     *	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Botulism    *	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	0
Brucellosis      *	1	2	1	3	2	1	1	2	3	1
Campylobacteriosis	76	49	39	45	58	69	45	47	46	83
Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease	1	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	0
Cryptosporidiosis	0	5	3	0	7	10	5	8	4	9
Cyclosporiasis	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Escherichia coli O157:H7 Infections	0	7	3	4	2	1	3	2	0	2
Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hantavirus Infection	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
Hemorrhagic fever, viral  NEC  *	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hepatitis A	331	375	457	314	202	177	103	105	57	46
Hepatitis B	173	247	175	174	369	833	875	487	396	1168
Hepatitis C	49	62	107	56	561	3078	5029	4290	3810	2958
Other Viral Hepatitides (D, E, etc)	35	14	12	3	0	1	0	1	0	0
Legionellosis	5	3	3	6	4	5	1	4	5	9
Listeriosis	12	6	3	8	11	7	7	5	6	4
Lyme Disease	2	1	1	3	2	24	3	4	5	21
Malaria	37	40	32	27	35	27	28	17	36	27
Neisseria meningitidis Infection (Meningitis/Septicemia)	32	15	19	18	18	23	24	22	14	5
Haemophillus influenzae B Infection	6	2	7	2	3	1	1	2	1	0
Aseptic Meningitis	291	92	149	197	109	152	266	239	453	305
Bacterial Meningitis NEC	10	11	12	10	11	14	17	27	24	15
Fungal Meningitis	16	12	23	13	17	18	20	30	27	16
Other Meningitis NEC	19	3	7	14	3	10	3	6	0	1
Mosquitoborne Viral Infections NEC  >	4	3	0	3	2	2	7	94	35	22
Dengue Encephalitis/Meningitis	4	0	0	0	2	0	2	0	0	0
Eastern Equine Encephalitis/Meningitis	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Saint Louis Encephalitis/Meningitis	0	3	0	3	0	2	5	9	3	0
West Nile Encephalitis/Meningitis	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	85	32	22
Yellow fever	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Encephalitis NEC	4	6	4	6	4	7	9	14	24	25
Plague     *	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Rabies	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Salmonellosis	265	262	255	272	223	224	235	255	242	234
Salmonella typhi	7	4	6	5	8	1	3	7	1	6
Non-typhi Salmonella species   >	258	258	249	267	215	223	232	248	241	228
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0	0
Shigellosis	281	340	267	265	248	304	182	180	165	200
Staphylococcus Infections Other Than Meningitis	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1
Streptococcus Infection, Invasive	48	45	61	207	188	196	169	135	169	136
Tickborne Infections NEC  >	2	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	2
Ehrlichiosis	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Relapsing fever	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Spotted fever group rickettsioses	2	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	2
Typhus	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Trichinosis	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Tularemia (Francisella tularensis)     *	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Vibriosis	3	2	8	7	9	4	3	5	6	6
Yersiniosis	0	0	1	1	2	1	3	3	4	2
Total General Surveillance	1709	1627	1669	1669	2098	5209	7054	5990	5555	5419
HIV/AIDS Surveillance
HIV	400	509	506	530	1398	1385	1316	1418	1140	1105
AIDS	1491	1556	1268	841	790	829	811	915	867	862
Total HIV/AIDS Surveillance	1891	2065	1774	1371	2188	2214	2127	2333	1988	1967
STD Surveillance (includes  Harris County Residents)
Chlamydia trachomatis Infections	8186	9084	10683	11666	10679	12476	11035	11424	10970	11582
Gonorrhea (Neisseria gonorrhoeae) Infections	7205	6176	6520	7315	5972	5944	5443	5103	4316	4520
Syphilis (Treponema pallidum Infection)	2740	2098	1827	1413	1074	866	909	1004	1063	1121
Congenital Syphilis	99	112	108	58	32	32	22	38	24	22
Primary Syphilis	120	51	44	32	26	24	28	23	43	38
Secondary Syphilis	261	123	121	62	43	51	70	92	151	168
Early Latent Syphilis	894	695	470	349	236	132	132	125	150	178
Late Latent Syphilis	1360	1098	1067	893	716	622	649	717	676	707
Tertiary Syphilis - Neurosyphilis	6	19	17	19	21	5	8	9	19	8
Total STD Surveillance	18131	17358	19030	20394	17725	19286	17387	17531	16349	17223
Special Surveillance (non-reportable diseases)
Influenza	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	15	-
Glanders (Burkholderia mallei)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total Special Surveillance	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	15	0
Non-Reportable cases are excluded unless indicated. All cases represent infections reported by date of Date of Onset or Date of Diagnosis.
Data may include suspected, confirmed and currently under investigation cases.
* Category A or B Agent not monitored by ELCIDS or Arboviral Surveillance
** Data for STDs (syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, HIV, and AIDS) are for all of Harris County, including the City of Houston. All other disease data are for the City of Houston only.