Reportable Disease Trends

SCHD receives reportable disease data from health care providers, hospitals, and schools for residents of Saginaw County. We utilize the Michigan Disease Surveillance System (MDSS) to accept case reports, follow-up on treatment of cases, and report disease data to the Michigan Department of Community Health (MDCH) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The following is a five year disease reporting history of reportable diseases for Saginaw County.

  • MDSS Report: Confirmed Reportable Diseases for 2015 - 2019
  • Case Types: Individual and Aggregate
  • Case Status: Confirmed
  • Counties: Saginaw
Disease Group Disease 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015
Foodborne Campylobacter 17 16 22 19 12
Foodborne Crytosporidiosis 26 10 15 15 8
Foodborne Giardiasis 7 12 21 4 4
Foodborne Listeriousis 0 0 1 1 1
Foodborne Norovirus 50 138 98 45 62
Foodborne Salmonellosis 16 18 17 21 16
Foodborne Shiga toxin-producing Echerichia coli --(STEC) 4 6 3 0 3
Foodborne Shigellosis 1 3 1 54 6
Foodborne Foodborne Subtotal 121 203 178 159 112
Influenza Flu Like Disease* 6,567 7,540 7,978 5,967 6,342
Influenza Influenza 284 1,398 1,269 608 52
Influenza Influenza Subtotal 6,851 8,938 9,247 6,575 6,394
Meningtis Meningitis - Aseptic 8 36 9 21 19
Meningtis Meningitis - Baterial Other 3 3 2 2 6
Meningtis Streptococcus pneumoniae 33 28 19 24 25
Meningtis Meningtis Subtotal 44 67 30 47 50
Other CP-CRE* 11 3 0 0 0
Other Coccidioidomycosis 0 2 3 2 3
Other Gastrointestinal Illness* 3,153 3,182 5,937 4,076 3,617
Other Guillain-Barre Syndrome 2 1 0 1 1
Other Head Lice* 251 237 177 244 254
Other Histoplasmosis 1 0 12 9 13
Other Kawasaki 0 1 0 1 2
Other Legionellosis 8 12 5 8 7
Other Strep Throat* 372 418 524 415 359
Other Streptococcal Dis, Inv, Grp A 8 9 8 5 4
Other Unusual Outbreak or Occurrence 63 33 10 1 11
Other Other Subtotal 3,869 3,898 6,676 4,762 4,271
Rabies Animal Bite 139 281 216 168 110
Rabies Animal 0 1 0 2 0
Rabies Rabies Subtotal 139 282 216 170 110
STD Chlamydia (Genital) 1,291 1,487 1,342 1,129 1,278
STD Gonorrhea 707 550 392 409 364
STD Syphilis - All Forms 0 0 6 10 7
STD STD Subtotal 1,998 2,037 1,740 1,548 1,649
Tuberculosis Latent Tuberculosis Infection 27 14 0 1 0
Tuberculosis Nontuberculous Mycobacterium 1 12 0 0 2
Tuberculosis Tuberculosis 1 0 0 4 3
Tuberculosis Tuberculosis Subtotal 29 26 0 5 5
VPD Chickenpox (Varicella) 2 1 2 1 1
VPD Pertussis 2 3 6 1 4
VPD Shingles 1 3 8 7 10
VPD Varicella-Zoster Infection, Unspecified 8 11 3 0 0
VPD Vaccine Preventitive Disease Subtotal 13 18 19 9 15
Vectorborne Lyme Disease 1 1 0 1 0
Vectorborne Rickettsial Disease - Spotted Fever* 1 0 0 0 0
Vectorborne West Nile 0 0 1 0 0
Vectorborne Vectorborne Subtotal 2 1 1 1 0
Viral Hepatitis Hepatitis A 1 6 3 3 3
Viral Hepatitis Hepatitis B, Chronic 3 15 14 15 17
Viral Hepatitis Hepatitis C, Chronic 84 106 106 123 87
Viral Hepatitis Viral Hepatitis Subtotal 88 127 123 141 107