New Local Disease Surveillance Reports Made Available to Public

Local health departments are releasing quarterly summaries of selected communicable (infectious) disease surveillance. Class A type diseases are reported for Cuyahoga County, Cleveland and Shaker Heights.

A joint project of the Cleveland Department of Public Health, Shaker Heights Health Department and the Cuyahoga County Board of Health has developed a Quarterly Disease Summary for Class A diseases.

Class A diseases are those diseases of major public health concern. The list of these diseases are determined by the Ohio Department of Health and can be viewed at this link.

Class A diseases include foodborne botulism, hepatitis, E.coli O157:H7, Lyme disease, mumps and pertussis, some of which are preventable through immunization. A full list can be seen at the end of this article.

Quarterly Reports listed below are available at this link.

• Quarter 1, 2008 (January - March)
• Quarter 2,  2008 (April - June)

Monthly reports for Cleveland only are also available at the link above.

Data reflect incidence, or new cases reported, for Cuyahoga County residents only, but include diseases acquired by Ohio residents while traveling outside of Cuyahoga County. Data is shown by date reported to local health agencies.

Data are abstracted from the Ohio Disease Reporting System of the Ohio Department of Health. Since some reportable conditions may be under investigation at the time of summary development, the health departments warn that all data in this report are provisional and are subject to change.

More information can be found at the disease reporting pages of the Cleveland Department of Public Health and the Cuyahoga County Board of Health.

The list of Class A diseases reported in the monthly and quarterly reports are:

Amebiasis

Arboviral neuroinvasive and non-neuroinvasive disease (includes West Nile Virus)

Aseptic (viral) Meningitis

Botulism, foodborne and Botulism, infant

Brucellosis

Campylobacteriosis

Coccidiomycosis

Creutfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) Cryptosporidiosis

E. Coli O157:H7 and other enterohemorrhagic

Encephalitis, other viral

Encephalitis, post-infection

Giardiasis

Haemophilus influenzae (H. flu), invasive

Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS)

Hepatitis A

Hepatitis B, acute,

Hepatitis B, chronic

Hepatitis C, acute

Hepatitis C, chronic

Hepatitis E

Legionnaires' disease

Listeriosis

Lyme Disease

Malaria

Meningitis, bacterial (non-Neiseria)

Meningococcal Disease

Mumps

Pertussis

Q Fever

Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (RMSF)

Salmonellosis

Shigellosis

Streptococcal Disease, Group A, invasive

Streptococcal disease, Group B, newborn

Streptococcal Toxic Shock Syndrome

Streptococcus pnuemoniae, invasive, non-resistant or unknown resistance

Streptococcus pnuemoniae, invasive, resistant or imtermediate resistance

Tetanus

Toxic Shock Syndrome

Toxoplasmosis (congenital)

Trichinosis

Typhoid Fever

Varicella

Vibriosis, other (not cholera)

Yersiniosis