To track progress toward achieving the goals of the Childhood
Immunization Initiative (CII), CDC publishes monthly a tabular
summary Table_1 of the number of cases of all diseases
preventable
by routine childhood vaccination reported during the previous month
and year-to-date (provisional data). In addition, the table
compares provisional data with final data for the previous year and
highlights the number of reported cases among children aged less
than 5 years, who are the primary focus of CII. Data in the table
are derived from CDC's National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance
System. Table_1 Note:
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Number of reported cases of diseases preventable by routine childhood vaccination
-- United States, November 1994 and 1993-1994 *
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No. cases among
Total cases children aged <5 years +
January - Nov January - November
No. cases, ---------------- -------------------------
Disease November 1994 1993 1994 1993 1994
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Congenital rubella
syndrome (CRS) 2 5 6 4 5
Diphtheria 0 0 1 0 1
Haemophilus influenzae & 69 1222 1031 379 266
Hepatitis B @ 817 11469 10399 120 106
Measles 3 300 876 114 211
Mumps 97 1484 1212 245 198
Pertussis 258 5689 3198 3398 1708
Poliomyelitis, paralytic ** 0 3 1 1 1
Rubella 2 175 211 31 21
Tetanus 1 39 34 0 0
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* Data for 1993 are final and for 1994, provisional.
+ For 1993 and 1994, age data were available for 90% or more cases, except for 1993 age
data for CRS, which were available for 80% of cases.
& Invasive disease; H. influenzae serotype is not routinely reported to the National Notifiable
Diseases Surveillance System.
@ Because most hepatitis B virus infections among infants and children aged <5 years are
asymptomatic (although likely to become chronic), acute disease surveillance does not
reflect the incidence of this problem in this age group or the effectiveness of hepatitis B vac-
cination in infants.
** One case with onset in 1994 has been confirmed; this case is vaccine-associated. An
additional six suspected cases are under investigation. In 1993, three of 10 suspected cases
were confirmed; two of the confirmed cases of 1993 were vaccine-associated and one was imported.
The imported case occurred in a 2-year-old Nigerian child brought to the United States for care
of his paralytic illness; no poliovirus was isolated from the child.
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