Utah monthly communicable disease report

May 2024

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Background: The Utah Department of Health and Human Services collects data on over 75 communicable diseases that affect the residents of Utah. These data are monitored by epidemiologists to detect changes in disease activity and guide prevention and education efforts. More information can be found here.

Note: Individual disease investigations take time to complete; for this reason, data in this report should be considered provisional and will change as more complete reports are received.

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	May 2024	5-yr May avg*	2024 YTD‡	5-yr YTD avg*‡
Acute Flaccid Myelitis	0	U	0	U
Adverse event resulting from smallpox vaccination	0	0	0	0
Amebiasis	0	0	0	0
Anthrax	0	0	0	0
Arbovirus infection (not including West Nile, Dengue, or Yellow Fever)	0	0	0	0
Babesiosis	0	0	0	0
Botulism, total	0	0.2	0	1.6
Botulism, foodborne	0	0	0	0.2
Botulism, infant	0	0.2	0	1.4
Botulism, other (wound/unspecified)	0	0	0	0
Brucellosis	0	0	0	0.8
Campylobacteriosis	91	52.2	308	211.4
Chancroid	0	0	0	0
Chickenpox	8	9.4	59	49.2
Chlamydia	837	884.8	4305	4509
Cholera	0	0	0	0
Coccidioidomycosis	2	4	36	21.6
Colorado tick fever	0	1.2	0	1.4
COVID-19	1058	***	11615	***
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and other transmissible human spongiform encephalopathies	0	0.2	3	1.6
Cryptosporidiosis	17	15.4	71	68.8
Cyclosporiasis	4	3.2	4	4.2
Dengue	1	0.2	8	1
Diphtheria	0	U	0	U
Echinococcosis	0	0	0	0
Ehrlichiosis/Anaplasmosis	0	0	0	0
Encephalitis	0	0.4	1	1
Giardiasis	19	16.2	84	67
Gonorrhea	180	234.2	806	1197.8
HIV infection	21	8.6	95	51.8
Haemophilus influenzae, all ages, invasive disease	12	3.4	45	19
nonserotype B, age <5 years	0	0.2	0	2.2
serotype B, age <5 years	0	0	0	0
unknown serotype, age <5 years	0	0	0	0.6
Hansen’s disease (Leprosy)	0	0.2	0	0.6
Hantavirus infection	0	0	0	0.2
Hemolytic uremic syndrome, post-diarrheal	1	0.2	4	1.4
Hepatitis A	0	2	2	7.4
Hepatitis B, acute	2	2.2	5	7.4
Hepatitis B, chronic	7	5.6	46	32
Hepatitis C, acutea	12	18.4	57	88.4
Hepatitis C, chronicb	105	109	458	550.8
Hepatitis, other viral	0	0.2	0	0.2
Influenza-associated hospitalization	28	32.6	961	778
Influenza-associated pediatric mortality	0	0	3	1.2
Legionellosis	2	3.6	13	11.4
Leptospirosis	0	0.2	1	0.8
Listeriosis	0	U	1	U
Lyme disease	2	1	6	3.2
Malaria	0	0.8	11	3.2
Measles	0	0	0	0.2
Meningitis, aseptic	0	0.6	0	2.4
Meningitis, bacterial, other	0	0.6	8	6.6
Meningitis, viral	5	1.2	25	7.4
Meningococcal Disease (Neisseria meningitidis)	1	0.2	1	0.8
Mumps	1	0.8	3	4.6
Pertussis	10	24.8	62	93
Plaguec	0	0	0	0
Poliomyelitis, paralytic and nonparalytic	0	0	0	0
Psittacosis	0	0	0	0
Q fever	0	0.6	1	2.2
Rabies, animal	0	0.4	0	0.4
Rabies, human	0	0	0	0
Relapsing fever, tick-borne and louse-borne	0	0	0	0
Rubella	0	0	2	0
Rubella, congenital syndrome	0	0	0	0
Salmonellosis	42	30.6	174	119.2
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)	0	0	0	0
Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) infection	20	18.6	88	67.2
Shigellosis	10	8	54	34.4
Smallpox	0	0	0	0
Spotted fever rickettsiosis (including Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever)	1	0	2	0.4
Streptococcal disease, invasive, group A	21	21	157	116.2
Streptococcal disease, invasive, group B	18	21.8	84	99.6
Streptococcal disease, invasive, other	8	28.8	16	168
Streptococcus pneumoniae, invasive disease	17	17.4	110	91.8
age <5 years	2	1	13	5.6
Syphilis, congenital	0	0	0	0
Syphilis, early (infection < 12 months)	23	18.2	121	79.6
primary & secondary	23	18.2	121	79.6
early latent	0	0	0	0
Syphilis, latent (infection > 12 months)	0	0	0	0
Tetanus	0	0	0	0
Toxic shock syndrome (staphylococcal or streptococcal)	1	3.2	12	16.4
Trichinellosis	0	0	0	0
Tuberculosis, active	6	2	24	10
Tularemia	0	0	0	0.2
Typhoid fever	0	0.4	0	1.4
Vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus (VISA)	0	0	0	0
Vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (VRSA)	0	0	0	0
Vibriosis	2	1.2	14	3.8
Viral hemorrhagic fevers	0	0	0	0
West Nile virus, total	0	0	0	0
Yellow fever	0	0	0	0
Zika Virus Disease	0	U	0	U
Note:
U: 5-yr average is unavailable (U) because of changes in communicable disease reporting rules.
a In 2019, the DHHS began reporting only confirmed cases of acute Hepatitis C. Previously, the DHHS reported confirmed and probable cases. The 5 year averages presented here represent only confirmed cases in the past 5 years.
b In 2019, the DHHS began reporting only confirmed cases of chronic Hepatitis C. Previously, the DHHS reported confirmed and probable cases. The 5 year averages presented here represent only confirmed cases in the past 5 years.
c In 2019, the DHHS began reporting only confirmed cases of plague. Previously, the DHHS reported confirmed and probable cases. The 5 year averages presented here represent only confirmed cases in the past 5 years.
* Averages are susceptible to skewing due to outbreaks and should be interpreted with care.
† YTD indicates counts are year-to-date.