Communicable disease data and information
Including annual disease case data and emerging issues
The 2020 Annual Report summarizes communicable disease surveillance data reported to the Public Health – Seattle & King County (PHSKC) Communicable Disease Epidemiology and Immunization Section by healthcare providers, laboratories, and the public. It includes a table with notifiable condition data from the past ten years, as well as trends by demographic characteristics and geography.
Disease facts by alphabetized groups
- Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
- Amebiasis, CDC
- Animal bites
- Arborviral diseases
- Autism and vaccines: Plain Talk About Childhood Immunizations booklet (see page 19 of English version)
- Avian Influenza (Bird Flu)
- Bats and rabies
- Baylisascariasis
- Bed bugs
- Biosolids recycling and E. coli
- Borreliosis (Tick-borne relapsing fever)
- Botulism
- Brucellosis
- Campylobacteriosis
- Cercarial dermatitis (Swimmer's Itch)
- Chickenpox (Varicella)
- Chlamydia
- Cholera
- Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
- Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease (CJD and vCJD)
- Cryptococcus gattii
- Cryptosporidiosis
- Cyclosporiasis
- Dengue Fever
- Diarrhetic shellfish poisoning
- Diphtheria
- Drug-resistant organisms
- E. coli O157:H7 and other Shiga toxin producing E. coli
- Emergency preparedness and response for health care professionals
- Enterovirus D68 (EV-D68), CDC
- Flesh-eating bacteria (Group A streptococcus, Necrotizing fasciitis)
- Flu (influenza)
- Foodborne illness
- Gastroenteritis outbreaks and long-term care facilities
- Giardiasis
- Gonorrhea
- Group A strep, CDC
- Guillain-Barré Syndrome, CDC
- H5N1 (Avian influenza)
- Haemophilus influenza type B (Hib disease)
- Hantavirus
- Hepatitis A
- Hepatitis B
- Hepatitis C
- Hepatitis E
- Herpes, genital
- Herpes zoster (Shingles)
- Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)
- Human papillomavirus (HPV)
- Immune globulin (Ig) for the prevention of communicable disease, CDC
- Influenza ("Flu")
- Japanese encephalitis
- Legionellosis
- Leptospirosis
- Lice
- Listeriosis
- Lyme Disease
- Mad Cow disease (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy)
- Malaria
- Marine biotoxins
- Mass casualty events
- Measles
- Meningococcus and Meningococcal disease
- Methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA)
- Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), CDC
- Milk, raw and unpasteurized
- Monkeypox
- Mumps
- Necrotizing fasciitis (Group A streptococcus)
- Norovirus
- Novel coronavirus (COVID-19)
- Nuclear events
- Pandemic flu
- Paralytic shellfish poisoning
- Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID)
- Pertussis (Whooping Cough)
- Plague
- Polio
- Pneumococcal disease, CDC
- Prion diseases
- Psittacosis
- Q Fever
- Rabies
- Raccoon roundworm
- Radiological events
- Raw milk
- Relapsing fever (Tick-borne relapsing fever)
- Ricin, CDC
- Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF)
- Roundworm (Toxocariasis)
- Rubella
- Salmonella
- Scabies, CDC
- Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), CDC
- Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs)
- Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC)
- Shigellosis
- Shingles
- Staphylococcus, methicillin resistant
- "Stomache flu" (Norovirus)
- Streptococcus equi subsp. zooepidemicus
- Streptococcus, group A, CDC
- Swimmer's Itch (cercarial dermatitis)
- Syphilis
- Tetanus
- Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever (TBRF)
- Toxoplasmosis, CDC
- Toxocariasis (Roundworm), CDC
- Transmissable Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSE)
- Trichinosis or Trichinellosis
- Trichomoniasis
- Tuberculosis
- Tularemia
- Typhoid and paratyphoid fever