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Appendices

Category Disease Total Domestic Case Imported Case
Botulism 0 0 0
Invasive Pneumococcal Disease 200 200 0
Q Fever 3 3 0
Endemic Typhus Fever 17 17 0
Lyme Disease 0 0 0
Tularemia 0 0 0
IV Scrub Typhus 276 276 0
Complicated Varicella 35 35 0
Toxoplasmosis 27 27 0
Severe Complicated Influenza 22 21 1
Brucellosis 0 0 0
Listeriosis 149 149 0
Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome 1 1 0
Rift Valley Fever 0 0 0
Marburg Hemorrhagic Fever 0 0 0
Yellow Fever 0 0 0
Ebola Virus Disease 0 0 0
V Lassa Fever 0 0 0
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 0 0 0
(MERS-CoV) Infections
Novel Influenza A Virus Infections 1 1 0
Severe Pneumonia with Novel Pathogens 8,856,407 8,818,311 38,096
Source: Taiwan Centers for Disease Control
Notes: 1. Date of Download: Data were downloaded on May 1, 2023.
2. Day of disease onset is used as the basis of analysis for all acute notifiable diseases.
3. No wild poliovirus has been detected in Taiwan since 1984. Nationwide surveillance of acute flaccid paralysis has been used for detecting cases of
poliomyelitis since the implementation of the Eradication Program for Measles, Congenital Rubella Syndrome, Poliomyelitis, and Neonatal Tetanus in
1992.
4. Tetanus and mumps are cases reported by the physician without laboratory testing of specimens.
5. On June 23, 2022, it was announced to add "Monkeypox" as a Category II statutorily notifiable infectious disease.

Table 2 Number of Confirmed Cases of Chronic Notifiable Disease, 2022

Category Diseases Number of Confirmed Notifiable
II Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB) 64

Tuberculosis 6,576
Syphilis 9,707
Congenital Syphilis 0
III Gonorrhea 8,015
Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection（HIV Infection） 1,069
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) 657
Hansen's Disease 8
IV Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease 0

Source: Taiwan Centers for Disease Control
Notes: 1. Date of Download: Data were downloaded on May 1, 2023.
2. Caseloads of MDR-TB were calculated based on the registration date by Taiwan CDC. Tuberculosis caseloads were based on the notification date.
Other chronic notifiable diseases were analyzed based on the diagnosis date.

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