Disease Data: Department of Health

Infectious Disease Data

Purpose: To monitor the trends in incidence and prevalence of infectious diseases of public health importance.
Key Information: Infectious disease data, including demographics, geographic, and seasonal distribution of reportable diseases.
Collection Period: 2017-2022 (These data are updated in October each year.)

Rhode Island Numbers

Disease							Five Yr: 2017-2021		Ten Yr: 2012-2021
Disease	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022*	Mean	Median	Mean	Median
Babesiosis	161	165	158	193	195	51	174	165	159	163
Campylobacteriosis	278	326	355	206	278	220	289	278	236	224
Chikungunya	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	8	0.5
Chlamydia	5,282	5,487	5,717	4,714	5,199	4,263	5,280	5,282	4,892	4,844
Coccidioidomycosis	3	4	1	0	1	1	2	1	1	1
COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2)				86,882	140,322	199,714	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
CJD (non-variant)	3	4	3	0	0	0	2	3	2	1
Cryptosporidosis	33	90	63	23	34	60	49	34	33	24
Cyclosporiasis	5	3	31	4	4	2	9	4	8	4
EEE Virus	0	0	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
Ehrlichiosis / Anaplasmosis	225	228	196	110	155	56	183	196	161	155.5
Giardiasis	45	56	79	31	55	51	53	55	54	50
Gonorrhea	1,087	1,336	1,516	1,399	1,681	1,145	1,404	1,399	986	898
Haemophilus Influenzae, invasive	18	25	24	12	15	6	19	18	19	18.5
Hepatitis A	6	7	6	4	1	1	5	6	5	4
HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus)	81	72	73	54	67	59	74	74	76	79
Legionellosis	50	73	48	36	87	43	59	50	46	41.5
Listeriosis	7	7	2	5	6	4	5	6	5	5
Lyme Disease	1,132	1,111	971	839	980	2,222	1,007	980	871	916
Malaria	13	12	13	2	7	9	9	12	13	13
Measles	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Meningococcal Disease	2	1	3	0	0	0	1	1	1	1
Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome Associated with COVID-19 (MIS-C)				12	18	6	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Mumps	29	5	9	0	2	0	9	5	5	2.5
Pertussis	84	34	44	4	0	0	33	34	67	64
Invasive Pneumococcal Disease	64	59	85	51	32	53	58	59	64	64.5
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever	15	9	0	0	1	0	5	1	5	2
Rubella (including congenital)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Salmonellosis	148	175	152	115	137	141	145	148	138	138.5
Shiga-toxin positive E. coli	14	45	48	28	45	39	36	45	21	12.5
Shigellosis	44	59	85	32	49	56	54	49	65	39
Streptococcus, Group A	39	43	53	34	30	32	40	39	37	37
Streptococcus, Group B	84	114	90	101	135	101	105	101	85	81
Syphilis (congenital)	0	0	0	1	2	4	1	0	0	0
Syphilis (late)	79	118	213	128	237	186	155	128	100	83
Syphilis (primary, secondary, and early latent)	142	167	210	186	328	162	207	186	155	144.5
Tuberculosis	13	19	14	7	17	15	14	14	18	18
Varicella	74	67	64	32	32	39	54	64	55	53.5
Vibriosis	15	13	12	10	13	12	13	13	11	11.5
West Nile Virus	2	1	0	0	2	1	1	1	1	1
Footnotes: * 2022 preliminary data was extracted from the RI National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NEDSS) on December 14, 2022, and is subject to change.

Get Data

Data Details

Contact

Infectious Disease Data

Rhode Island Numbers