Communicable Disease Data

The Communicable Disease Dashboard provides information about the prevalence of communicable diseases in Spokane County. All data are considered finalized unless specifically noted to be preliminary in the data table or chart. This dashboard is updated monthly.

Five-year communicable disease reports for Spokane County are available on the Reports page.

Data Available by Year

This dashboard currently includes data for the period of 2017 through 2022. Once the data compilation and verification process is complete, the dashboard will be updated to include data for 2022 through 2024.

The initial 2022 through 2024 update will not include all national data for that time frame. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will not release national data until a later date. When the CDC makes national data available, they will be integrated into this dashboard. National data may be further delayed due to changes at the CDC.

Dashboard Data Table Notes

Reportable condition cases are reviewed and finalized on an annual basis. Years for which data have not yet been reviewed and finalized (provisional data) reflect current available case information and are subject to change.

All data are considered finalized unless noted to be provisional in the data table or chart. An asterisk (*) indicates data that were not available at the time of publication or not reportable at the local, state or national level.

Case counts for the 2 most recent calendar years on each disease-specific tab are provisional and subject to change due to continuing investigations or additional case reports. These data are highlighted in green.

Spokane County case counts and rates highlighted in red indicate that these figures exceeded the 5-year median for the respective disease.

Disease rates are reported per 100,000 population at risk. Population estimates used in rate calculations for Washington and Spokane came from the Washington State Office of Financial Management.

COVID-19

Detailed data for COVID-19 were not included in this dashboard. Please visit the Respiratory Illness dashboard for COVID-19-related emergency department visits, hospitalizations, deaths, long-term care outbreaks and wastewater surveillance.

Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis case counts on this dashboard include active tuberculosis disease cases. Latent tuberculosis infection cases are not reportable in Washington state.

Data Sources

Data presented in this dashboard were sourced from:

• Washington State Department of Health (DOH) Annual Communicable Disease Reports¹
  See Sources section for additional information.
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System 2017-2021 Annual Tables of Infectious Disease Data²

Notifiable Conditions

Cases of notifiable conditions were included in this report if they met the following criteria:

• Resident of Spokane County, Washington state, or the United States
• Qualifying event dates were during the appropriate CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) year (January 1 to December 31)
• Reported to DOH and/or the CDC and entered prior to each agency’s deadline for annual reporting
• Case reports entered into the Washington Public Health Issue Management System (PHIMS) or Washington Disease Reporting System (WDRS)
• Given a valid case classification by DOH as described in the guidelines for each condition – See the Washington State DOH List of Notifiable Conditions