Infectious Disease
(Data are for the U.S.)
Morbidity
- Number of new tuberculosis cases: 11,545 (2009)
- Number of new salmonella cases: 49,192 (2009)
- Number of new Lyme disease cases: 38,468 (2009)
- Number of new meningococcal disease cases: 980 (2009)
Source: Health, United States, 2011 table 44 [PDF - 9.8 MB]
Health care use
Ambulatory care
- Number of visits to office-based physicians for infectious and parasitic diseases: 27.1 million
Source: National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2009 Summary Tables, table 12 [PDF - 382 KB]
- Number of hospital outpatient department visits for infectious and parasitic diseases: 4.2 million
More data
- AIDS/HIV
- Infectious Disease Prevalence in Los Angeles County–A Comparison to National Estimates, 1999–2004
- Influenza
- Immunization
- Measles
- Pneumonia
- Sexually Transmitted Diseases
- Viral hepatitis
- Whopping cough/Pertussis
- Health, United States trend tables with data on infectious disease
- Key statistics from NHANES
- Seroprevalence of six infectious diseases among adults in the United States by race/ethnicity: Data from the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1988-94 [PDF - 475 KB]
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