Average Annual Incidence From Selected Diseases Under Surveillance, by Subregion of the Americas, 1980 and 1997

Subregion	(Number of notified cases)
	Measles		Cholera		Tuberculosis		Malaria		AIDS
									Until	In
	1980	1997	1992	1997	1980	1995	1980	1997	1991	1995
The Americas	251,257	51,910	358,169	17,690	227,137	255,582	537,948	1,057,337	334,221	100,559
North America	26,875	708	102	4	30,507	23,321	2,675	1,265	267,906	68,858
Latin America & The Caribbean	224,382	51,202	358,067	17,686	196,630	232,262	535,273	1,056,072	66,315	31,699
Latin America	219,716	51,084	357,483	17,686	195,748	231,437	526,777	1,007,903	62,532	29,892
Mexico	29,730	28	8,162	2,356	11,528	17,159	25,734	5,046	9,057	4,310
Central America	15,680	41	30,028	2,640	11,870	13,376	225,558	152,981	3,362	2,123
Latin Caribbean	14,422	1	0	0	12,042	14,669	13,043	850	6,061	599
Brazil	95,154	50,460	37,572	2,927	72,608	89,233	176,237	392,976	34,478	17,666
Andean Area	43,466	171	281,095	9,122	59,003	76,440	85,724	454,881	6,868	3,033
Southern Cone	21,264	383	626	641	28,697	20,558	481	1,169	2,706	2,163
Non-Latin Caribbean	4,666	118	584	0	882	825	8,496	48,169	3,783	1,807
	Source of basic data: PAHO Regional Database on Mortality and AIDS Surveillance in the Americas, September 1998.