Indicator

Years

Number of Events

Rate

Significantly Different

Ranking Quintile

State Rate

Median

AIDS

  Cases

1998

5

1.8*

8.2

15

  Hospitalizations

1998

11

4.0*

L

13.7

9

  Deaths

1998

1

0.4*

L

2.7

5

Campylobacter

  Cases

1998

26

9.5

10.4

36

Chlamydia

  Cases

1998

162

59.5

232.7

167

E. coli O157:H7

  Cases

1998

1

0.4*

1.1

4

  Hospitalizations+

1998

1

0.4*

N/S

0.3

1

Gonorrhea

  Cases

1998

67

24.6

174.0

59

Hepatitis A

  Cases

1998

7

2.6*

12.5

29

HIV Infection

  Cases

1998

7

2.6*

8.1

7

Influenza/Pneumonia

  Cases

1998

**

**

**

**

**

**

  Hospitalizations

1998

922

338.5

L

5

631.1

861

  Deaths

1998

76

27.9

L

44.8

73

Pertussis (Whooping Cough)

  Cases

1998

0

0.0*

1.1

2

  Hospitalizations

1998

0

0.0*

N/S

1.0

1

Salmonella

  Cases

1998

38

14.0

12.7

24

Syphilis

  Early

  Cases

1998

3

1.1*

2.0

2

  Congenital

  Cases

1998

0

0.0*

26.6

1

  Hospitalizations

1998

0

0.0*

N/S

0.1

0

Tuberculosis

  Active Disease

  Cases

1998

1

0.4*

3.4

3

  Hospitalizations

1998

0

0.0*

L

3.5

4

  Deaths

1998

0

0.0*

N/S

0.3

0

  Infections

  Cases

1998

104

***

***

+ Includes all subspecies of E. Coli

* Fewer than 20 events in numerator; therefore rate is unstable.
**Reliable incidence data are not currently available.
***Rates are not calculated for tuberculosis infection due to the fact that many people with tuberculosis infection never know that they are infected.

Updated 03/28/01