Ministry of Health Announces National Communicable Disease Epidemic in October

The Ministry of Health today released its national infectious disease epidemic in October 2012 on its official website. In October 2012, the country reported a total of 574,404 communicable diseases and 1,454 deaths.

In October 2012 (between 0000 hours on October 1, 2012 and 00:00 on October 31), the country (excluding Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao, the same below) reported a total of 574,404 communicable diseases and 1,454 deaths. Among them, there was no report of plague and death in Class A infectious diseases, and 16 cases of cholera were reported without death. In addition to reports of infectious atypical pneumonia, polio, highly pathogenic avian influenza and diphtheria-free incidence and deaths in Class B infectious diseases, a total of 293,278 cases and 1,415 deaths were reported for the remaining 22 infectious diseases; The top five disease incidences were viral hepatitis, tuberculosis, syphilis, bacterial and amoebic dysentery, and gonorrhea, which accounted for 96% of the total reported incidence of category B infectious diseases.

During the same period, a total of 281,110 cases of Class C infectious diseases were reported across the country, with 39 deaths. The top three diseases reported were HFMD, other infectious diarrheal diseases, and epidemic parotitis, which accounted for 96% of the total reported cases of Class C infectious diseases.