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Show Sun Advocate Price, Utah Tuesday April 25. 2000 9B Epidemiology bureau releases infectious disease surveillance results The state bureau of epidemi- were employed in Washington ology conducts regular surveilCounty. lances to track the Incidence of No hepatitis A outbreaks were Infectious diseases In Utah. associated with day care centers i According to Utah health offi- during the year. In fact, only three (4.7 percent cials, the surveillance procedure is crucial to understanding the of the reported hepatitis A cases health status of a population,' were associated with day care planning effective prevention centers, an 88 percent reduction programs and reducing morbid- compared to the 24 cases reity and mortality ported in 1998. The epidemiology bureaus Like hepatitis A, numbers of latest report includes a brief reported hepatitis B cases also overview of specific reportable decreased. Infectious diseases of considerHepatitis B cases dropped to able public health significance in 38, a 42 percent reduction from. 1998 numbers. Of the cases, 58 the state during 1999. The number of salmonellosis percent were male and 63 per; cases had the most profound ef- cent were between the ages of 20 fect on the increased enteric dis- and 39. ease rates. During 1999, 26 peerintal The number of salmonella hepatitis B carriers were identicases Increased 60 percent (568 fied statewide. A total of 54 total cases) in 1999 from the 356 household in Utah were identicases reported In 1998, a year fied and evaluated. The number of hepatitis C that saw a 31 percent increase ip the number of incidences over cases also dropped substantially the previous year. (73 percent), from 22 cases resalFifty-nin- e of the percent ported in 1998, to six incidences monella Isolates (336) were typed enteritidies (SE) which is commonly found In undercooked poultry and raw eggs. In fact, 21 percent bfSE cases (70) were associated with out- breaks Involving the consumption of homemade ice cream prepared with shelled eggs. Like salmonella, the number ! . : . in 1999.; One case of hepatitis D and two to hepatitis E were reported AIDS related deaths reported across Utah in 1998, a trend that Is consistent with what is seen ' nationally Fifty-nin- e officials continue to State positive HIV antiwere reported to test results care health body urge providers teBt individuals presenting with to the bureau during 1999, a hepatitis rather than relying on number that represents a 13 percent increase in positive tests a clinical diagnosis. According to the Utah Bureau reported during the preceding during the year. of HIVAIDS, Tuberculosis and Refugee Health, through the end of 1999, 147 AIDS cases were documented in the state. The number of 1999 cases represents a3 percent Increase in reported AIDS incidences from year. The numbers represent persons who first tested during the year of the report, but whose date of acquiring HIV HIV-posI-tl-ve cases are type A. One reported suspect case of Influenza for the season is presumably type B. A greater number of cases were reported earlier in the migrants and migrants who were 80 born outside of the United States, and 63 percent being male. Additionally, during 1999, there were 17 TB cases (43 percent) whose site of the disease Included extra1 pulmonary sites as compared to 33 percent of the 1998 reported cases. Surveillance for the 1998-9-9 influenza season began the week 0 season than during the 1998-9- 9 surveillance season and the number of cases peaked the week ending Jan. 1, 000. Nonetheless, the bureau has 0 no indication that the season Is more severe than the 1999-200- 1999-200- of Oct. 18, 1998, and continued weekly through April 3, 1999. season. Meningococcal disease rates in 1999 were comparable to pre1998-9- 9 There were 84 culture confirmed cases for the surveillance Infection cannot be determiner. Reported tuberculosis (TB) season which was an Increase cases decreased from 52 in 1998 over the 50 culture confirmed 1998. cases reported during the 1997-9- 8 re40 in of (o Sixty-fiv- e all 1999, a change of 23 perpercent surveillance season. ported AIDS cases through 1999 cent Of the 84 cultures, 67 were were diagnosed among men who However, the number of deaths statewide In- type A and 17 were type B. have sex with men, while inject--In- g Of the 50 culture confirmed none in 1998 to five from for accounted creased use has drug cases seen during the 1997-9- 8 in 1999. 18 percent of the cases. . Thirty-eig- ht AIDS related deaths were documented statewide In 1999. The total number represents a 36 percent Increase over the indiMales and foreign-born- e viduals continue to be disproportionately at an increased risk for the disease with half of the cases (50 percent) being refugees, im vious years with 16 reported cases. The cases were evenly distributed throughout the year with no major outbreaks Identified There were 30 additional confirmed cases of bacterial meningitis reported during 1999. The number of reported viral meningitis cases dropped from 147 cases in 1998 to only 26 In 1999, representing an 82 percent season, all were type A. Fbr the week ending Jan. 22, 0 surveillance for the season has tracked 80 culture confirmed cases of influenza. All 1999-200- decrease. of shigellosis cases also increased during 1999. The number of reported . shigellosis cases climbed 38 percent, registering at 48 in 1998 and increasing to 66 during last year. CampylobacterioBis cases decreased slightly (10 percent) from 209 cases in 1998 to 188 in 1999. Utah has continued its no- table decline in hepatitis A cases reported. Disease' rates peaked in 1996 with 1073 cases reported and have steadily declined siAce. '7 In 1999, only 64 cases were reported, resulting in a 67 percent reduction compared to 1998, a . year that also experienced a substantial decrease (6.5 percent) in reported cases compared to the previous year. Of the total number of tis A cases identified during --4999, five (7.8 were percent) - among food handlers.Fbur of the five food handlers Masquer-ad- : The First Security IMMA Plus has' (Continued from page 8B) the Better Business Bureaus and the UB. Postal Inspection Service to show consumers how to recognize advertising even when it looks like something else. "Not everything that shows up In your mailbox is necessarily what it appears to be," points out Lesley FUr, an attorney in the FTC's bureau of consumer proteo-tkm who specializes in advertising practices. 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