Volume 9, Number 5—May 2003
Research
Endemic, Notifiable Bioterrorism-Related Diseases, United States, 1992–1999
, M. Kathleen Glynn*, and Samuel L. Groseclose*
Table 4
Reported cases of conditions caused by critical biologic agents, by geographic region of residence, National Notifiable Disease Surveillance System, United States
| Botulism |
||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Geographic regiona |
Foodborne |
Other |
Brucellosis |
Cholera |
Plague |
Tularemia |
| Cases (%) | Cases (%) | Cases (%) | Cases (%) | Cases (%) | Cases (%) | |
| New England |
1 (0.5) |
1 (0.7) |
9 (1.1) |
7 (3.1) |
0 (0.0) |
11 (1.2) |
| Middle Atlantic |
9 (4.0) |
4 (2.7) |
20 (2.5) |
16 (7.2) |
0 (0.0) |
17 (1.9) |
| East North Central |
4 (1.8) |
1 (0.7) |
82 (10.1) |
12 (5.4) |
0 (0.0) |
46 (5.2) |
| West North Central |
2 (0.9) |
1 (0.7) |
37 (4.6) |
3 (1.4) |
0 (0.0) |
296 (33.5) |
| South Atlantic |
14 (6.3) |
4 (2.7) |
116 (14.3) |
14 (6.3) |
0 (0.0) |
32 (3.6) |
| East South Central |
10 (4.5) |
2 (1.4) |
20 (2.5) |
0 (0.0) |
0 (0.0) |
24 (2.7) |
| West South Central |
28 (12.6) |
0 (0.0) |
224 (27.6) |
21 (9.4) |
1 (1.3) |
283 (32.0) |
| Mountain |
21 (9.4) |
5 (3.4) |
65 (8.0) |
28 (12.6) |
66 (85.7) |
114 (12.9) |
| Pacific |
134 (60.1) |
130 (87.8) |
240 (29.5) |
122 (54.7) |
10 (13.0) |
62 (7.0) |
| Total | 223 (100.0) | 148 (100.0) | 813 (100.0) | 223 (100.0) | 77 (100.0) | 885 (100.0) |
aNew England includes Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut; Middle Atlantic includes New York, New York City, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania; East North Central includes Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin; West North Central includes Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas; South Atlantic includes Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida; East South Central includes Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi; West South Central includes Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas; Mountain includes Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and Nevada; Pacific includes Washington, Oregon, California, Alaska, and Hawaii.