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Highlights
Influenza
In addition to collecting influenza case reports, public health
has other ways to determine if influenza is in the community. Like
January, the number of patients with influenza-like illnesses seen
at sentinel clinics was elevated. This season, the reported hospitalized
cases are fairly evenly distributed between patients with influenza
type A and type B.
The far East continues to experience cases (and deaths) due to avian
influenza (type A, H5N1). Currently, there is limited human-to-human
transmission with this virus. Most cases are transmitted directly
from poultry. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and
the World Health Organization are closely monitoring the situation
and looking for sustained human-to-human transmission.
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for more information about influenza.
Pertussis
The number of reported
pertussis cases reported continues to be higher than expected in
the state, especially from along the Wasatch Front. Like many other
states, the Utah Department of Health has observed a disproportionate
increase in the number of cases reported among adolescents and adults.
The majority of cases reported in the 1990s were among children.
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The total
number of confirmed and suspect cases for selected diseases, reported
by Utah health
districts, is provided below (Table
1 and Figure 1). Click on the
disease names in Table 1 to access their corresponding fact sheets.
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for sexually-transmitted disease epidemiologic data. Click here
for AIDS/HIV epidemiologic data.
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