Virginia Communicable Disease Data

Virginia Communicable Disease Data

Virginia Communicable Disease Data

The Office of Epidemiology compiles communicable disease data reported by healthcare providers, hospitals, and laboratories. This information is used to monitor, control, and prevent reportable diseases and other health conditions in communities.

Some communicable diseases are nationally notifiable; data on nationally notifiable conditions are sent to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) so they can be tracked for the whole country. Using standardized surveillance case definitions, public health officials can classify and count cases consistently across reporting jurisdictions.

Communicable disease surveillance data captures information to understand: 

  • Who is impacted (i.e., age, sex, race and ethnicity of cases); 
  • How they are impacted (i.e., clinical illness experienced and care received); 
  • What diseases are occurring and how commonly they occur; 
  • How disease trends change over time; and 
  • Where diseases are occurring (i.e., geographic distribution). 

 

Virginia Monthly Reportable Disease Surveillance Data

Monthly data reports are always considered preliminary and subject to change because it takes time to receive, prepare and ensure the accuracy and completeness of public health surveillance data.

Monthly Morbidity Surveillance Data

Virginia Disease-Specific Data

Virginia Reportable Disease Surveillance Data Annual Report, 2021

Virginia Reportable Disease Surveillance Data Annual Report, 2021

 

Virginia Reportable Disease Surveillance Data Annual Reports, 1988-2016

Annual reports generated from 1988-2016 are available as historical PDFs. For 2017-2021 data, see the 2021 annual report.

For more information about communicable disease programs visit VDH Epidemiology webpage.

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