Beginning with this issue, Tables I and II, Cases of selected
notifiable diseases, United States, incorporate several changes
that
began with week 1 of 1991:
Lyme disease and Haemophilus influenzae have been added to the
list
of nationally notifiable diseases effective January 1991. Cases of
Lyme
disease are reported in Table I and on the first page of Table II,
and
cases of H. influenzae, in Table I.
Cases of gonorrhoea and syphilis (primary and secondary) are no
longer tabulated in separate civilian and military categories;
cases
appear as a single total for each disease.
Leprosy has been moved from the first page of Table II to Table
I
and is now listed as Hansen disease.
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