Diseases

The Spokane Regional Health District reports that for the week ending Oct. 22, the following communicable disease cases were reported in Spokane County:

(The columns of this table are as follows: Disease, This week, 1997 to date, 1996 to date)

AIDS (317 total) 0 32 19 Relapsing fever 0 3 3 Campylobacteriosis 0 70 64 Chlamydia 7 444 460 E. coli 0157:H7 0 7 10 Encephalitis 0 0 0 Giardiasis 1 23 14 Gonorrhea 3 99 96 Hepatitis A-inf. 2 71 20 Hepatitis B-serum 0 0 2 Hepatitis non-A/B 0 2 2 Hepatitis unspec. 0 0 0 Influenza (lab conf.) 0 36 1 Red measles 0 0 0 Bacterial meningitis 0 5 0 Mumps 0 0 3 Whooping cough 0 81 54 German measles 0 0 0 Salmonellosis 0 28 39 Shigellosis 0 8 42 Syphilis 0 1 0 Tuberculosis 0 9 5 Yersiniosis 0 1 0