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Reported Cases of Selected Diseases, 2003-2007

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Disease

Year

Five Yr Mean

Five Yr Median

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)

98

139

105

89 

69

103

101

Amebiasis

8

13

6

12

7

9

8

Babesiosis

25

48

43

61

59

47

48

Campylobacteriosis

176

148

143

137

136

148

143

Chlamydia

3000

3442

3269

3142 

3177

3206

3177

Cryptosporidosis

17

4

19

14

11

13

14

Shiga-toxin positive E. coli (including O157:H7)

4

16

9

9

8

9

9

Ehrlichiosis

89

88

24

23

22

49

24

Giardiasis

126

130

132

117

85

118

126

Gonorrhea

973

816

438

508 

402

627

508

Group A Streptococcal Disease

35

28

12

20

14

22

20

Group B Streptococcal Disease

32

28

47

44

37

38

37

Hepatitis A

17

24

19

16

14

18

17

Hepatitis B, acute

21

7

5

11 

16

12

11

Hepatitis C, acute

1

0

0

 1

8

2

1

Legionnellosis

20

21

31

28

45

29

28

Lyme Disease

736

249

39

308

177

302

249

Malaria

7

11

10

4

8

8

8

Measles

0

0

0

 0

0

0

0

Meningococcal Disease

4

2

4

2

3

3

3

Mumps

0

0

0

 4

1

1

0

Pertussis

55

53

53

101 

59

64

55

Pneumococcal Disease

125

137

103

112

96

115

112

Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever

1

7

3

10

0

4

3

Rubella (including congenital rubella)

0

0

0

0

0

0

Salmonellosis

137

139

112

119

111

124

119

Shigellosis

22

21

23

18

25

22

22

Syphilis (congenital)

0

1

0

 0

0

0

0

Syphilis (early latent)

7

15

5

10

9

7

Syphilis (late)

50

62

35

 51

30

46

50

Syphilis (primary and secondary)

33

26

24

 14

36

27

26

Tuberculosis

52

51

47

26 

45

44

47