2006 Update

Information relating to notifications of infectious diseases are summarised as key points and more detailed tables & charts  below.

These analyses now include confirmed notifications to the year ended 31st December 2006. 


Key Points

• The number of mumps notifications for 2006 has fallen by almost 50% when compared to 2005.
  • Notifications of mumps in children (under 15 year olds) decreased from 679 cases in 2005 to 398 cases in 2006.
  • Across all ages, mumps notifications decreased from 5,698 in 2005 to 2,917 in 2006. The 15-24 year old age group contributed the majority of cases (66%).

• Childhood measles notifications increased from 169 in 2005 to 218 in 2006.
  
  
• Notifications of rubella in under 15 year olds increased from 126 cases in 2005 to 142 cases in 2006.
  
  
• Following a significant decrease in the number of chicken pox notifications for children in 2005, there has been an increase from 13,874 in 2005 to 14,891 in 2006.  The number of notifications however, is still considerably less than those recorded in 2004.
  
  
• 414 notifications of tuberculosis (Tb) were made in 2006, 25 more than in 2005.  This total is made up of 260 pulmonary Tb notifications (an increase of 16 cases from 2005) and 154 non-pulmonary Tb notifications (an increase of 9 cases from 2005).
  
  
• 7,335 food poisoning notifications were made in 2006, an increase of 417 from 2005.  These include notifications of campylobacter, a common causative bacterium.
  
  
• Confirmed notifications of meningococcal infection for 2006 showed little change from 2005 figures (140 & 139 cases respectively).

Tables and Charts

• Tables relating to childhood diseases   
  
  
• Tables & Charts relating to other common diseases  

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*Additional information on the mumps outbreak is published in HPS weekly report numbers
2005/38, 2005/50 & 2006/10  and British Medical Journal 2005 vol330 pp1119-1120 & pp1132-1135.