Notice to Readers: Final 2004 Reports of Notifiable Diseases
The notifiable diseases table (Table 2) on pages 772--80 summarizes final National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance
System (NNDSS) data for 2004. Final as of June 30, 2005, these data will be published in more detail in the
Summary of Notifiable Diseases, United States,
2004 (1). Because no cases of anthrax; diphtheria; influenza-associated pediatric mortality;
paralytic poliomyelitis; rubella, congenital syndrome; severe acute respiratory syndrome--associated coronavirus; smallpox; vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus
aureus; western equine encephalitis; or yellow fever were reported in the United States
during 2004, these nationally notifiable diseases do not
appear in this table.
Policies for reporting notifiable disease cases vary by disease or reporting jurisdiction, depending on case status
classification (i.e., confirmed, probable, or suspected). The NNDSS print criteria, which are applied at the national level to data reported by
states, are based on case status. A recent revision of the NNDSS print criteria was applied to the data in this report.
Requests for the revised print criteria can be sent to e-mail soib@cdc.gov. Population estimates for the 50 states and Puerto Rico
are from National Center for Health Statistics estimates of the July 1, 2000--July 1, 2003 U.S. resident population from
the Vintage 2003 postcensal series by year, county, age, sex, race, and Hispanic origin, prepared under a collaborative arrangement with the U.S. Census Bureau (available at
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/about/major/dvs/popbridge/popbridge.htm). Population numbers for territories are 2003 estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau IDB Data Access --- Display Mode (2).
References
CDC. Summary of notifiable diseases, United States, 2004. MMWR 2004;53(53) (in press).
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