Prevalence and Incidence of Diseases contagious from food

Prevalance of types of Diseases contagious from food:

For details see prevalence of types of Diseases contagious from food analysis; summary of available prevalence data:

• Toxoplasmosis: More than 60 million in USA but few have symptoms (DPD)
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Incidence of types of Diseases contagious from food:

For details see incidence of types of Diseases contagious from food analysis; summary of available incidence by type data:

• Botulism food poisoning: 154 annual cases notified in USA 1999 including 23 foodborne, 92 infant, and 39 other (MMWR 1999)
• Brucellosis: 82 annual cases notified in USA 1999 (MMWR 1999)
• Cholera: 6 annual cases notified in USA 1999 (MMWR 1999)
• Cyclosporiasis: 56 annual cases notified in USA 1999 (MMWR 1999)
• Food poisoning: about 76 million cases annually in USA (NIDDK)
• Hepatitis A: 32,000 new cases in the USA 1992 (Digestive diseases in the United States: Epidemiology and Impact – NIH Publication No. 94-1447, NIDDK, 1994)
• Listeriosis: estimated 2,500 annually in USA (DBMD)
• Polio: 0 annual cases of paralytic poliomyelitis notified in USA 1999 (MMWR 1999)
• Q fever: 3.9 new cases per 100,000 population of Q Fever were notified in Australia 2002 (Yohannes K, Roche P, Blumer C et al. 2004, Australia’s Health 2004, AIHW)
• Salmonella food poisoning: estimated 1.4 million cases (CDC estimate/NIAID, many unreported)
• Toxocariasis: estimated 10,000 annual cases in USA (DPD)
• Traveler's diarrhea: estimated 10 million (DBMD¹)
• Trichinosis: 12 annual cases notified in USA 1999 (MMWR 1999)
• Tuberculosis: 18,361 cases annually in the USA (1998); 8 million people worldwide develop active TB and 3 million die; 17,531 annual cases notified in USA 1999 (MMWR 1999); 5.50 per 100,000 in Canada 2000²
• Typhoid fever: 346 annual cases notified in USA 1999 (MMWR 1999)
• Vibrio parahaemolyticus: 0.25 per 100,000 (DBMD 1997)
• Vibrio vulnificus: less than 300 cases in 1988-1995 (DBMD)
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About prevalence and incidence statistics:

The term 'prevalence' of Diseases contagious from food usually refers to the estimated population of people who are managing Diseases contagious from food at any given time. The term 'incidence' of Diseases contagious from food refers to the annual diagnosis rate, or the number of new cases of Diseases contagious from food diagnosed each year. Hence, these two statistics types can differ: a short-lived disease like flu can have high annual incidence but low prevalence, but a life-long disease like diabetes has a low annual incidence but high prevalence. For more information see about prevalence and incidence statistics.

Footnotes:
1. Traveller's Diarrhea, CDC/DBMD, Nov 21, 2006
2. Notifiable Diseases Online, PPHB, Canada, 2000

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