Nationally Notifiable Infectious Diseases and Conditions, United States: Annual Tables

TABLE 2p. Annual reported cases* of notifiable diseases, by region and reporting area, United States, U.S. Territories, and Non-U.S. Residents, 2020†
Data from some reporting areas may be incomplete due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic or due to post-reconciliation data updates that could not be confirmed or included in the final data set. Please see Note #9 and Note #10, respectively.
Reporting Area Spotted fever rickettsiosis Streptococcal toxic shock syndrome Syphilis
Total Confirmed Probable Total, all stages § Congenital  Primary and secondary
U.S. Residents, excluding U.S. Territories 1,175 64 1,111 224 133,933 2,148 41,654
New England 16 — 16 23 2,726 13 1,075
Connecticut 8 — 8 10 529 2 279
Maine — — — 9 81 — 38
Massachusetts 6 — 6 2 1,658 10 615
New Hampshire 1 — 1 — 120 — 51
Rhode Island — — — — 315 1 89
Vermont 1 — 1 2 23 — 3
Middle Atlantic 43 1 42 12 15,895 68 4,832
New Jersey 35 1 34 6 2,385 24 764
New York (excluding New York City) 5 — 5 3 1,961 12 777
New York City — — — — 8,652 18 2,245
Pennsylvania 3 — 3 3 2,897 14 1,046
East North Central 71 — 71 49 11,262 100 4,231
Illinois 24 — 24 27 4,565 26 1,467
Indiana 17 — 17 14 1,347 6 527
Michigan 5 — 5 4 2,059 29 787
Ohio 22 — 22 3 2,457 33 1,084
Wisconsin 3 — 3 1 834 6 366
West North Central 138 29 109 7 4,956 54 1,792
Iowa 4 — 4 N 501 1 194
Kansas 25 3 22 1 539 8 150
Minnesota — — — 4 1,098 7 417
Missouri 92 23 69 2 2,331 30 829
Nebraska 8 2 6 — 268 1 104
North Dakota 1 — 1 — 91 3 32
South Dakota 8 1 7 — 128 4 66
South Atlantic 334 17 317 66 29,659 345 9,296
Delaware 19 — 19 — 222 2 97
District of Columbia 5 2 3 — 988 3 247
Florida 14 3 11 N 12,416 154 3,520
Georgia 26 1 25 44 5,596 82 1,757
Maryland 20 4 16 — 2,683 31 873
North Carolina 187 6 181 9 3,714 31 1,322
South Carolina 10 1 9 1 1,681 19 652
Virginia 48 — 48 7 1,953 15 701
West Virginia 5 — 5 5 406 8 127
East South Central 277 4 273 8 7,250 102 2,482
Alabama 88 1 87 N 1,517 21 529
Kentucky 55 1 54 8 1,139 13 445
Mississippi 23 — 23 N 2,131 37 741
Tennessee 111 2 109 — 2,463 31 767
West South Central 242 7 235 1 20,987 700 4,855
Arkansas 213 5 208 — 1,243 23 502
Louisiana 5 — 5 1 2,497 63 704
Oklahoma 12 — 12 N 1,889 53 941
Texas 12 2 10 N 15,358 561 2,708
Mountain 48 5 43 58 10,627 236 3,581
Arizona 35 2 33 — 4,460 120 1,454
Colorado 2 — 2 2 1,785 22 640
Idaho 3 1 2 — 184 2 66
Montana 2 — 2 — 101 2 45
Nevada 2 1 1 24 2,218 46 767
New Mexico 2 — 2 — 1,496 42 467
Utah 1 1 — 32 351 1 131
Wyoming 1 — 1 — 32 1 11
Pacific 6 1 5 — 30,571 530 9,510
Alaska N N N N 361 8 176
California 1 — 1 N 26,414 481 7,688
Hawaii N N N — 397 12 182
Oregon 3 1 2 N 1,320 19 628
Washington 2 — 2 N 2,079 10 836
U.S. Territories — — — — 891 4 287
American Samoa N N N N — — —
Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands — — — — 2 — 2
Guam N N N — 21 — 5
Puerto Rico N N N N 828 4 276
U.S. Virgin Islands — — — — 40 — 4
Non-U.S. Residents — — — — 12 — 1
Total 1,175 64 1,111 224 134,836 2,152 41,942
  • —: No reported cases — The reporting jurisdiction did not submit any cases to CDC.
  • N: Not reportable — The disease or condition was not reportable by law, statute, or regulation in the reporting jurisdiction.
  • U: Unavailable — The data are unavailable.
  • * Cases are assigned to the reporting jurisdiction submitting the case to NNDSS if the case's country of usual residence is the United States, a U.S. territory, unknown, or country is not reported; otherwise, the case is assigned to the Non-U.S. Residents' category. Country of usual residence is currently not reported by all jurisdictions or for all conditions because this data element is only available in the HL7 generic version 2 and disease-specific message mapping guides. If a jurisdiction sends data in legacy formats, they are not able to send this information. For further information on interpretation of these data, see https://www.cdc.gov/nndss/data-statistics/readers-guides/.
  • † To calculate rates, use the populations provided in Table 8. Note that calculation of rates for the following conditions use population subsets presented in Table 8: Zika virus infection, congenital; Zika virus disease, congenital; Infant botulism; Congenital rubella syndrome; Perinatal Hepatitis B infection; Perinatal Hepatitis C infection; Haemophilus influenzae, invasive disease; Invasive pneumococcal disease; and Influenza-associated pediatric mortality. Also see Notes #3 and #7.
  • § Includes the following categories: primary; secondary; early non-primary non-secondary (includes cases previously reported as early latent); unknown duration or late (includes cases previously reported as late latent syphilis and cases previously reported as late syphilis with clinical manifestations) and congenital syphilis.
  • ¶ Congenital syphilis cases are usually assigned to the mother's state of residence at the time of delivery. Data for congenital syphilis are aggregated by the infant's year of birth.
Notes:
  1. These are annual cases of selected infectious national notifiable diseases from the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS). NNDSS data reported by the 50 states, New York City, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. territories are collated and published. Cases are reported by state health departments to CDC weekly. Because source datasets may be updated as additional information is received, statistics in publications based on that source data may differ from what is presented in these tables. Source datasets for the 2020 annual tables were officially closed on September 27, 2022.
  2. The list of national notifiable Infectious diseases and conditions for 2020 and their national surveillance case definitions are available by navigating to the Surveillance Case Definitions | CDC web page, selecting "2020" for the notifiable condition list year, checking "Infectious" conditions, and clicking "Get Notifiable List by Year". This list incorporates the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) position statements approved in 2019 by CSTE for national surveillance that were implemented in January 2020. Revised case definitions were implemented for the following conditions: plague, legionellosis, acute hepatitis C, spotted fever rickettsiosis, and pertussis. In addition, CSTE adopted the first coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) national surveillance case definition on April 5, 2020, and they approved a revision to the COVID-19 national surveillance case definition, effective August 5, 2020. Publication criteria for the finalized 2020 data are available at https://wonder.cdc.gov/nndss/documents/2020_NNDSS_Publication_Criteria_03162022.pdf. See also Guide to Interpreting Provisional and Finalized NNDSS Data.
  3. Population estimates for incidence rates are July 1st, 2020, estimates obtained from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) postcensal estimates of the resident population of the United States for April 1, 2010, to July 1, 2020, by year, county, single year of age (range: 0 to 85 years), bridged-race (white, black or African American, American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, or Pacific Islander), Hispanic ethnicity (not Hispanic or Latino, Hispanic or Latino), and sex (Vintage 2020), prepared under a collaborative arrangement with the U.S. Census Bureau. Population estimates for states released September 21, 2021, are available at https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/bridged_race/data_documentation.htm. Population estimates for territories are the 2020 mid-year estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau International Data Base, accessed on March 15, 2022, at https://www.census.gov/data-tools/demo/idb/#/country?YR_ANIM=2022. The choice of population denominators for incidence is based on the availability of population data at the time of publication preparation.
  4. Annual tables for 2016 and later years are available on CDC WONDER.
  5. Annual summary reports from 1993–2015 are available as published in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
  6. NNDSS annual tables since 1952 are available at CDC Stacks (once in CDC Stacks, select "Annual Reports" in the "Genre" box to the left).
  7. For most conditions, national incidence rates are calculated as the number of reported cases for each infectious disease or condition divided by the U.S. resident population for the specified demographic population or the total U.S. resident population, multiplied by 100,000. When a national notifiable infectious condition is associated with a specific age restriction, the same restriction was applied to the population in the denominator of the incidence rate calculation. In addition, population data from reporting jurisdictions in which the disease or condition was not reportable or not available were excluded from the denominator of the incidence rate calculations.

    Age restrictions in the numerator and denominator are applied for the following childhood conditions:

    • Zika virus disease, congenital (age restriction in numerator and denominator is <1 year)
    • Zika virus infection, congenital (age restriction in numerator and denominator is <1 year)
    • Haemophilus influenzae, invasive disease <5 years (age restriction in numerator and denominator is <5 years)
    • Invasive pneumococcal disease <5 years (age restriction in numerator and denominator is <5 years)
    • Influenza associated pediatric mortality (age restriction in numerator and denominator is <18 years)
    • Infant botulism (age restriction in numerator and denominator is <1 year)
    • Congenital rubella syndrome (age restriction in numerator and denominator is <1 year)
    • Perinatal hepatitis B infection (age restriction in numerator is ≤24 months, denominator is <24 months)
    • Perinatal hepatitis C infection (age restriction in numerator is ≤36 months, denominator is <36 months).

    Data for congenital syphilis are aggregated by the infant's year of birth. The rate for congenital syphilis is based upon the number of reported cases per 100,000 live births, using natality data for 2020 (National Center for Health Statistics Natality 2020, as compiled from data provided by the Vital Statistics Cooperative Program). Congenital syphilis cases are usually assigned to the mother's state of residence at the time of delivery. The mother's race and ethnicity are used for race- and ethnicity-specific rates of congenital syphilis cases.

  8. Surveillance data reported by other CDC programs might vary from data reported in these tables because of differences in 1) the date used to aggregate the data, 2) the timing of reports, 3) the source of the data, 4) surveillance case definitions, and 5) policies regarding case jurisdiction (i.e., which jurisdiction should submit the case notification to CDC).
  9. The following reporting areas may have incomplete data, due to technical or programmatic challenges while reconciling data during the COVID-19 pandemic: California, Guam, and Minnesota.
  10. The following reporting areas may have incomplete data due to updates made to their data after the 2020 reconciliation period ended and there was not sufficient time before publication of the annual tables to confirm the updated counts: Idaho, Kansas, Maryland, Vermont, and Virgin Islands.
  11. Of the reporting areas that submitted 2020 aggregate COVID-19 data to CDC, three did not submit probable cases. New York (excluding New York City) and Utah did not collect probable cases. U.S. Virgin Islands collected probable cases, but did not report them to CDC.
  12. Disease data presented in the 2020 tables reflect impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, such as changes in exposure-related behavior, healthcare-seeking behavior, disease reporting, and public health investigations.
Suggested Citation: Acknowledgment:
  • CDC acknowledges the local, state, and territorial health departments that collected the data from a range of case ascertainment sources (e.g., healthcare providers, hospitals, laboratories) and reported these data to CDC's National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System.