2006 South Carolina Annual Report On Reportable Conditions December 2008 South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control Contents Introduction ..................................................................................................................... 5 S.C. List of Reportable Conditions ................................................................................ 10 Diseases by Year .......................................................................................................... 11 Incidence Rate by Year ................................................................................................. 15 2006 Diseases by County (* indicates 3 or fewer cases) .............................................. 19 Disease Reports ............................................................................................................ 24 AIDS / HIV ............................................................................................................................... 25 Animal Bites to Humans .......................................................................................................... 27 Anthrax ............................................................................................................................ 29 Botulism (Clostridium botulinum) ................................................................................ 30 Campylobacteriosis ................................................................................................................. 33 Chancroid ................................................................................................................................ 35 Chlamydia ............................................................................................................................... 36 Cholera ................................................................................................................................... 37 Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) ........................................................................................... 38 Cryptosporidiosis .................................................................................................................... 39 Cyclosporiasis ......................................................................................................................... 41 Dengue ................................................................................................................................... 43 Eastern Equine Encephalitis ................................................................................................... 46 Ehrlichiosis .............................................................................................................................. 47 Giardiasis ................................................................................................................................ 49 Glanders (Burkholderia mallei) ......................................................................................... 51 Gonorrhea ............................................................................................................................... 53 Haemophilus Influenza ........................................................................................................... 54 Hantavirus ............................................................................................................................... 56 Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS) ....................................................................................... 57 Hepatitis A, Acute ................................................................................................................... 58 Hepatitis B, Acute and Chronic Infection ................................................................................ 60 Hepatitis B, Perinatal .............................................................................................................. 63 Hepatitis C, Acute and Chronic ............................................................................................... 65 Hepatitis D .............................................................................................................................. 68 Hepatitis E ............................................................................................................................... 69 Influenza ................................................................................................................................. 70 Kawasaki Disease / Kawasaki Syndrome ............................................................................... 72 Legionellosis (Legionnaires' Disease) ..................................................................................... 73 Leprosy / Hansen’s Disease ................................................................................................... 75 Leptospirosis ........................................................................................................................... 77 Listeriosis ................................................................................................................................ 78 Lyme Disease ......................................................................................................................... 80 2 Lymphogranuloma venereum ................................................................................................. 81 Malaria .................................................................................................................................... 82 Measles ................................................................................................................................... 84 Melioidosis ...................................................................................................................... 86 Meningitis, aseptic (viral) ........................................................................................................ 88 Meningococcal Disease .......................................................................................................... 91 Mumps .................................................................................................................................... 94 Pertussis ................................................................................................................................. 96 Pesticide Poisoning ................................................................................................................. 98 Plague (Yersina pestis) ................................................................................................. 100 Poliomyelitis, paralytic ........................................................................................................... 101 Psittacosis ............................................................................................................................. 103 Q Fever (Coxiella burnetii) ........................................................................................ 104 Rabies, Animal ...................................................................................................................... 105 Rabies, Human ..................................................................................................................... 107 Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever ............................................................................................. 109 Rubella .................................................................................................................................. 111 Salmonellosis ........................................................................................................................ 113 SARS .................................................................................................................................... 115 Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) .................................................................... 117 Shigellosis ............................................................................................................................. 119 Smallpox / Variola .......................................................................................................... 121 St. Louis Encephalitis ............................................................................................................ 122 Streptococcus Group A, Invasive Disease ............................................................................ 124 Streptococcal Infection, Group B, age under 90 days .......................................................... 126 Streptococcus Pneumoniae, Invasive Disease ..................................................................... 128 Syphilis .................................................................................................................................. 130 Tetanus ................................................................................................................................. 133 Toxic Shock Syndrome ......................................................................................................... 134 Toxins ............................................................................................................................ 135 Trichinosis ............................................................................................................................. 138 Tuberculosis .........................................................................................................................