This is the current weekly total of notifications of infectious diseases by Board along with the cumulative total and a comparison of the same period last year.
Notifications of Infectious Diseases, Week 27, 2008*, Northern Ireland
*Data Provisional
	Week 27
Disease	EHSSB	NHSSB	SHSSB	WHSSB	Northern Ireland	Cumulative Total
Disease	EHSSB	NHSSB	SHSSB	WHSSB	Northern Ireland	to Week 27, 2008	to Week 27, 2007
Acute Encephalitis/Meningitis Bacterial	1	0	0	0	1	19	20
Acute Encephalitis/Meningitis Viral	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
Anthrax	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Chickenpox	17	24	12	0	53	1097	2076
Cholera	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Diphtheria	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Dysentry	0	0	0	0	0	1	5
Food poisoning	5	9	2	2	18	540	626
Gastroenteritis (< 2years)	11	2	1	4	18	575	606
Hepatitis A	0	0	0	0	0	3	0
Hepatitis B	0	0	0	0	0	31	24
Hepatitis unspecified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Legionnaires' disease	0	1	0	0	1	1	2
Leptospirosis	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Malaria	0	0	0	0	0	1	2
Measles	0	0	0	0	0	13	16
Meningococcal Septicaemia	0	0	0	0	0	18	32
Mumps	1	0	1	1	3	62	87
Paratyphoid fever	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Plague	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Poliomyelitis (paralytic)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Poliomyelitis (acute)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Rabies	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Relapsing fever	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Rubella	0	0	0	0	0	14	16
Scarlet fever	0	0	0	0	0	125	167
Smallpox	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tetanus	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tuberculosis (Pulmonary)	2	0	0	0	2	20	19
Tuberculosis (Non Pulmonary)	0	0	0	0	0	17	7
Typhoid	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Typhus	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Viral Haemorraghic Fevers	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Whooping cough	3	0	1	0	4	13	8
Yellow fever	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total	40	36	17	7	100	2553	3715

Food poisoning notifications include those formally notified by clinicians and reports of Salmonella, Campylobacter, Cryptosporidium, Giardia, Listeria
and E Coli O 157 informally ascertained from laboratories.