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This is a list of infectious diseases arranged by name, ... Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. CDC Works 24/7. Retrieved on August 4, 2009.
In the United States, the National Notifiable Disease Surveillance System (NNDSS) is responsible for sharing information regarding notifiable diseases. As of 2020, the following are the notifiable diseases in the US as mandated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: [1]
There have been various major infectious diseases with high prevalence worldwide, but they are currently not listed in the above table as epidemics/pandemics due to the lack of definite data, such as time span and death toll. An Ethiopian child with malaria, a disease with an annual death rate of 619,000 as of 2021. [18]
Disease Australia [1] Hong Kong [2] India [3] Malaysia [4] United Kingdom [5] United States [6] Amoebic dysentery: Yes Yes Babesiosis: Yes Cancer: Yes Coccidioidomycosis: Yes Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD) Yes Yes variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (vCJD) Yes Cryptosporidiosis: Yes Yes Cyclosporiasis: Yes Dysentery: Yes Yes Fever syndromes ...
The CDC's programs address more than 400 diseases, health threats, and conditions that are major causes of death, disease, and disability. The CDC's website has information on various infectious (and noninfectious) diseases, including smallpox, measles, and others.
This is a list of diseases known (or declared) to have been eliminated from the United States, either permanently or at one time. (" Elimination " is the preferred term for "regional eradication" of a disease; the term " eradication " is reserved for the reduction of an infectious disease's global prevalence to zero.)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Wednesday that one infectious disease now kills more Americans than all others combined. New data shows hepatitis C killed nearly 20,000 ...
The U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) maintains a list of Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases. The list is categorized by biodefense risk, which is mostly based on biological warfare and bioterrorism considerations. As of 2004, it recognized the following emerging and re-emerging diseases. [44]