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Appendices

Category Disease Total Domestic Case Imported Case
Botulism 0 0 0
Invasive Pneumococcal Disease 287 286 1
Q Fever 4 2 2
Endemic Typhus Fever 25 25 0
Lyme Disease 0 0 0
Tularemia 0 0 0
Scrub Typhus 204 203 1
IV
Complicated Varicella 47 47 0
Toxoplasmosis 25 23 2
Severe Complicated Influenza 1,058 1,041 17
Brucellosis 0 0 0
Listeriosis 191 189 2
Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome 0 0 0
Severe Pneumonia with Novel Pathogens 6 1,394,232 1,376,092 18,140
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
Source: Taiwan Centers for Disease Control
Notes: 1. Date of Download: Data were downloaded on May 1, 2024.
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. Effective February 1, 2024, the official Chinese nomenclature for "monkeypox" has been revised to "M pox."
5. Tetanus and mumps are cases reported by the physician without laboratory testing of specimens.
6. Starting March 20, 2023, the case definition for Severe Special Infectious Pneumonia (COVID-19) was updated to require both a positive test result
and the presence of complications. Subsequently, on May 1 of the same year, it was reclassified from a Category V to a Category IV notifiable
infectious disease.
Table 2 Number of Confirmed Cases of Chronic Notifiable Disease, 2023

Category Diseases Number of Confirmed Notifiable
II Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB) 66
Tuberculosis 6,584
Syphilis 9,941
Congenital Syphilis 4
III Gonorrhea 8,257

Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection（HIV Infection） 940
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) 585
Hansen's Disease 9

IV Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease 0
Source: Taiwan Centers for Disease Control
Notes: 1. Date of Download: Data were downloaded on May 1, 2024.
2. Caseloads of MDR-TB were calculated based on the registration date by Taiwan CDC. Cases of other chronic notifiable diseases were analyzed
based on the diagnosis date.

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