Volume 22, Number 10—October 2016
Online Report
Global Capacity for Emerging Infectious Disease Detection, 1996–2014
Table 2
Type and number of disease outbreaks meeting the selection criteria in a study assessing global capacity for emerging infectious disease detection, 1996–2014
Disease | No. outbreaks, N = 347 |
---|---|
Anthrax | 1 |
Avian influenza (H9N2) | 1 |
Chikungunya | 4 |
Cholera | 93 |
Dengue | 13 |
Diphtheria | 1 |
Dysentery | 1 |
Enterovirus D68 | 1 |
H5 influenza | 39 |
H7 influenza | 3 |
Hand, foot, and mouth disease | 4 |
Hemorrhagic fevers (Crimean-Congo, Ebola, Marburg, undiagnosed) | 29 |
Hantavirus | 2 |
Henipavirus | 4 |
Hepatitis E | 2 |
Japanese encephalitis | 3 |
Lassa fever | 2 |
Legionellosis | 4 |
Leptospirosis | 3 |
Louseborne typhus | 1 |
Lujo virus | 1 |
MERS | 2 |
Malaria | 3 |
Measles | 3 |
Meningitis | 24 |
Monkeypox | 1 |
Nonavian influenza A | 4 |
O'nyong-Nyong fever | 1 |
Plague | 10 |
Poliomyelitis | 24 |
Relapsing fever | 1 |
Rift Valley fever | 6 |
SARS | 3 |
Shigellosis | 4 |
Streptococcus suis | 1 |
Tularemia | 2 |
Typhoid fever | 4 |
West Nile virus | 3 |
Yellow fever | 39 |
*MERS, Middle East respiratory syndrome; SARS, severe acute respiratory syndrome.