Norway Yearbook - 2003

Health and social conditions
1 26 Individually notified cases of infectious diseases
Diagnosis 1995 1996 1997
Individually notified cases'
Campylobacter enteritis 1 046 1143 1178
Entamoeba hystolytica infection 92 85 118
Giardiasis 206 198 290
Hepatitis A 250 521 335
Acute hepatitis B 99 96 186
Hepatitis C 31 17 21
Hepatitis, other and unspecified 8 4 5
Lyme disease 134 121 143
Meningitis, bacterial 20 20 30
Meningitis, viral 46 52 76
Meningitis, unspecified 6 14 5
Meningoccal infection group B 111 95 75
Meningoccal infection group C 30 32 23
Meningoccal infection, other and unspecified 17 11 15
Malaria 80 101 107
Pneumococcal disease 700 885 816
Salmonella enteritis 564 625 785
Salmonella typhi infection 130 211 221
Salmonella infections, other and unspecified 340 403 387
Shigelliosis 148 173 163
Streptococcus group A 107 113 163
Streptococcus group B 87 63 87
Yersinosis 149 121 108
1998 1999 2000 2001
1 700 2027 2326 2890
177 191 125 81
373 454 340 338
507 998 154 86
469 472 262 202
24 26 22 35
1 9 3 2
179 146 138 124
35 29 40 22
111 100 172 162
1 7 12 9
82 60 61 46
11 11 13 15
14 8 12 16
89 73 80 77
890 871 856 872
827 712 796 1 082
203 233 239 218
464 487 454 601
171 190 140 189
267 261 191 204
84 134 145 131
140 125 140 124
1Notified with the patient's name.
Source: Norwegian Institute of Public Health, MS!S. More information: http:/Áww.fhi.no/.
1 27 HIV infections, by source of infection and year of diagnosis
Number of cases diagnosed
Source of infection
Total Percent
1984-
1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002
Total 2555 100.0 1026 105 113 94 105 116 113 98 147 175 158 205
Heterosexual 1121 43.9 264 57 53 33 47 63 67 58 92 131 106 150
Infected while resident in
Norway 413 16.2 11 23 29 33 22 27 38 27 28
Infected before immigration 708 27.7 22 24 34 34 36 65 93 79 122
Homosexual 833 32.6 447 28 44 37 45 35 30 30 36 32 39 30
Intravenous drugabuser 473 18.5 354 12 13 12 11 9 11 8 12 7 8 16
Transfusion 46 1.8 41 2 1 - - 1 - -
From mother to child 29 1.1 9 2 1 - - 4 1 1 4 3 2 2
Other/unknown 53 2.1 10 4 1 12 2 5 3 1 3 2 3 7
Source: Norwegian Institute of Public Health, MSIS. More information: http://ww.fhi.no/.
I 28
New cases of aids, by source of infection and year of notification. Deaths from
aids
Source of infection
Total
1983-
1994
1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002
Total 770 450 67 56 34 39 28 38 26 32
Heterosexual 210 71 22 15 14 17 10 22 14 25
Infected while resident in Norway 112 47 17 9 11 5 4 5 5 9
Infected before immigration 98 24 5 6 3 12 6 17 9 16
Homosexual 378 262 35 24 11 13 12 9 8 4
Intravenous drugabuser 129 77 8 12 8 5 6 6 4 3
Transfusion 29 27 1 1 - - - - -
From mother to child 6 3 - 1 - 2 - -
Other/unknown 18 10 1 3 1 2 1
Deaths from aids 563 357 58 46 23 26 13 18 11 11
Source: Norwegian Institute of Public Health, MSIS. More information: http:/M'wfhi.no/.
132 Statistical Yearbook of Norway 2003