摘要：In 1999 there were 88,239 notifications of communicable diseases in Australia reported to the National NotifiableDiseases Surveillance System (NNDSS). The number of notifications in 1999 was an increase of 3 per cent onnotifications in 1998 (85,227) and the second largest reporting year since the NNDSS commenced in 1991.Notifications in 1999 consisted of 29,977 bloodborne infections (34% of total), 22,255 gastrointestinal infections(25%), 21,704 sexually transmitted infections (25%), 5,986 vector borne infections (7%), 5,228 vaccine preventableinfections (6%), 1,967 (2%) other bacterial infections (legionella, meningococcal, leprosy and tuberculosis), 1,012zoonotic infections (1%) and 3 quarantinable infections (0.003%). Notifications of bloodborne viral diseasesparticularly hepatitis B and hepatitis C and some sexually transmitted infections such as gonorrhoea andchlamydia continue to increase in Australia. Steep declines in vaccine preventable diseases such as Haemophilusinfluenzae type b, measles, mumps and rubella continued in 1999. This report also summarises data oncommunicable diseases from other surveillance systems including the Laboratory Virology and SerologySurveillance Scheme (LabVISE) and sentinel general practitioner schemes. In addition this report comments onother important developments in communicable disease control in Australia in 1999
