| arboviruses associated with human disease in australia. | mosquito-borne arboviruses are an important public health issue in australia. the alphaviruses ross river and barmah forest virus are widespread and active annually, and cause debilitating polyarthritis. the flaviviruses murray valley encephalitis, kunjin and japanese encephalitis virus are restricted in distribution and activity but may cause life-threatening illness, and dengue viruses are active in some areas. | 2000 | 11137043 |
| australia's notifiable diseases status, 2001: annual report of the national notifiable diseases surveillance system. | in 2001 there were 104,187 notifications of communicable diseases in australia reported to the national notifiable diseases surveillance system (nndss). the number of notifications in 2001 was an increase of 16 per cent of those reported in 2000 (89,740) and the largest annual total since the nndss commenced in 1991. in 2001, nine new diseases were added to the list of diseases reported to nndss and four diseases were removed. the new diseases were cryptosporidiosis, laboratory-confirmed influen ... | 2003 | 12725505 |