Weekly Data from the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System
Produced by: Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
Geographic coverage: State level
Dates of coverage: 1996 to present

Select: There are 8 tables reporting the disease in alphabetical order by disease. You will need to find the table by trial and error.

Includes: Infectious diseases; specifically, salmonella, tuberculosis, meningococcal infections, septicemia, syphilis, measles, viral hepatitis, HIV, and malaria to name a few.

Other Information: These are provisional cases of selected national notifiable diseases, from the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS). NNDSS data reported by the 50 states, New York City, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. territories are collated and published weekly as numbered tables printed in the back of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). Cases reported by state health departments to CDC for weekly publication are provisional because of ongoing revision of information and delayed reporting.

HIV/AIDS & STD Statistics and Trends
Produced by: Texas Department of State Health Services Bureau of HIV and STD Prevention
Geographic coverage: County level
Dates of coverage: 1987 to 2006

• Texas HIV/STD Surveillance Report
• HIV/STD Annual Reports
• Epidemiologic Profiles
• Border Reports (2001 & 2003)
• Texas Perinatal HIV Transmission Profile
• 1998 BRFSS HIV/AIDS & Sexual Behavior Module
• AIDS Dots Maps
• 1997 Survey of Childbearing Women
• HARS HIV/AIDS Cases Semi-Annual Data (2001-2004)

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Includes: Border profile, perinatal HIV transmission, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System HIV/AIDS section, and HIV/STD Surveillance Reports by county (covers HIV/AIDS, chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, and pelvic inflammatory disease).

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Includes: Trends and rates; descriptions of preventions and services.

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Surveillance and Statistics
Produced by: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Geographic coverage: State; selected cities (Houston, Dallas)
Dates of coverage: 1993 to 2006

Select: The Surveillance Report for the report, color slides, and the supplements or just go to the supplements.

Includes: Summary by disease and by state showing historical trend for that disease as well as data by different types of health care facilities (STD clinics, family planning clinics, etc.).

Other Information: While the data is not as geographically discrete as that provided by TDH, it does provide data that is not available elsewhere.

Select: The reports for the Planning Area that covers your county or city of interest.

Includes: Executive summary; descriptions of subpopulations; morbidity profile; risk profile; population estimates; drug risk; trend cases; and trend rates.

Other Information: The reports look at Morbidity Analysis Zones (HMAZ or High Morbidity Analysis Zone and LMAZ or Low Morbidity Analysis Zone) as well as entire planning regions. The HMAZs have one to four counties in each and there can be multiple HMAZs in a planning area. The LMAZs include those counties in that planning region not in an HMAZ. 2003 HIV/STD Prevention Area Action Plans also included.

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Includes: Age, race/ethnicity, dead/not dead, sexual orientation, HIV exposure category, and case definition.

Other Information: Interactive database; MSAs include: Austin, Dallas, El Paso, Fort Worth, Houston, McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, and San Antonio

Select: Standard Interface for one page search tool; Wizard Interface for multi-page search tool.

Includes: Morbidity for all forms of viral hepatitis.

Other Information: Interactive database; report variables include gender, race/ethnicity, or age as well as by type of hepatitis and year.

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Includes: Number of infants who have been identified that were born to women who were HBsAg-positive; number of infants receiving Hepatitis B prevention services; and number household contacts and sexual partners of HBsAg-positive women who received Hepatitis B prevention services.

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CDC Wonder AIDS Public Data
Produced by: Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
Geographic coverage: MSA level data: Austin, Dallas, El Paso, Fort Worth, Houston, McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, and San Antonio
Dates of coverage: 1981 - 2002

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Other Information: Interactive database; report variables include age, race/ethnicity, dead/not dead, sexual orientation, HIV exposure category, and case definition.

Texas Data from VitalWeb
Produced by: Expert Health Data Programming
Geographic coverage: County level

Texas Viral Hepatitis Deaths [ICD-9]
Dates of coverage: 1980 to 1998

Viral Hepatitis Deaths [ICD-10]
Dates of coverage: 1999 to 2000

Select: Link at the top or choose the database you need from the list at the left.

Includes: Infectious diseases; specifically, salmonella, tuberculosis, meningococcal infections, septicemia, syphilis, measles, viral hepatitis, HIV, and malaria to name a few.

Other Information: Interactive database; report variables include gender, race/ethnicity, or age as well as by disease and year.

Weekly Mortality Data from the MMWR
Produced by: Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
Geographic coverage: City and regional level
Dates of coverage: 1996 to present

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Includes: Shows a weekly tally of deaths for all causes by age breakouts for Austin, Corpus Christi, Dallas, El Paso, Ft. Worth, Houston, and San Antonio.

Other Information: These are data from the CDC 122 Cities Mortality Reporting System as printed in Table III of the MMWR each week.