Volume 9, Number 5—May 2003
Research
Endemic, Notifiable Bioterrorism-Related Diseases, United States, 1992–1999
Table 3
Conditions caused by critical biologic agents, ranking by number of reported cases and incidence rates (per 1 million population) by state of residence, National Notifiable Disease Surveillance System, United States,a 1992–1999
Disease | Rank by reported cases |
Rank by incidence rate |
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Rank | State | No. of cases | Rank | State | Average annual incidence rate | |||||||
Botulism, foodborne |
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1 |
Alaska |
72 |
1 |
Alaska |
1,493.7 |
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2 |
Washington |
33 |
2 |
Washington |
75.7 |
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3 |
Texas |
27 |
3 |
Idaho |
75.0 |
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4 |
California |
25 |
4 |
Wyoming |
26.1 |
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5 |
Idaho |
7 |
5 |
Colorado |
20.0 |
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Botulism, otherb |
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1 |
California |
128 |
1 |
D.C. |
51.5 |
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2 |
New Mexico |
3 |
2 |
California |
42.1 |
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3 |
NYC |
3 |
3 |
New Mexico |
25.4 |
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4 |
D.C. |
2 |
4 |
Mississippi |
10.6 |
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5 |
Mississippi |
2 |
5 |
Utah |
7.3 |
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Brucellosis |
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1 |
California |
215 |
1 |
Wyoming |
156.5 |
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2 |
Texas |
200 |
2 |
Texas |
133.0 |
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3 |
N. Carolina |
58 |
3 |
N. Carolina |
100.7 |
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4 |
Illinois |
53 |
4 |
Iowa |
92.3 |
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5 |
Florida |
31 |
5 |
Arizona |
87.1 |
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Cholera |
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1 |
California |
115 |
1 |
Nevada |
130.4 |
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2 |
Nevada |
16 |
2 |
California |
45.5 |
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3 |
Texas |
14 |
3 |
Hawaii |
42.4 |
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4 |
Louisiana |
7 |
4 |
Alaska |
20.8 |
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5 |
Arizona |
6 |
5 |
Louisiana |
20.2 |
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Plague |
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1 |
New Mexico |
35 |
1 |
New Mexico |
258.9 |
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2 |
Arizona |
14 |
2 |
Arizona |
40.7 |
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3 |
Colorado |
11 |
3 |
Colorado |
36.7 |
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4 |
California |
9 |
4 |
Wyoming |
26.1 |
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5 |
Utah |
3 |
5 |
Utah |
19.2 |
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Tularemiac |
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1 |
Arkansas |
211 |
1 |
S. Dakota |
1,268.0 |
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2 |
Missouri |
158 |
2 |
Arkansas |
1,061.5 |
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3 |
S. Dakota |
74 |
3 |
Montana |
531.4 |
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4 |
Oklahoma |
62 |
4 |
Missouri |
371.3 |
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5 | Montana | 37 | 5 | Oklahoma | 236.7 |
aReports from 50 U.S. states, Washington, D.C., and New York City (NYC).
bIncludes wound and unspecified botulism.
cNot nationally notifiable 1995–1998.