The annual number of cases in Victoria has continued to increase; 41 cases were reported to the Victorian Department of Human Services in 2005, compared with 25 in 2004 and 12 in 2003.
Their concern increased when 75,000 cases were reported statewide.
Increasing numbers of cases were reported from the last quarter of 2004 until the epidemic peak was reached in epidemiologic week 36 in 2005.
During the same period, increasing numbers of cases were reported in infected visitors returning to Europe and the US [ 27, 30].
The number of cases of gonorrhoea reported to the ECDC has been increasing annually since 2008; 52,995 cases were reported in 2013, which is an 11%% increase from the previous year (47,641 cases in 2012) [ 42].
Subsequent annual increases followed: 505 cases were reported in 2000, 1,191 cases in 2002, and 2,651 cases in 2004 22, 4 ).
In this city, often called Russia's cultural capital and home to about 200 museums, the incident of art theft increased tenfold from 1992 to 1997, when 178 cases were reported.
Shortly after a change to exclusive use of the Danish 1331 strain during 2012 2013, an increasing number of BCG-related lymphadenitis cases were reported to the National Center for Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases NCTLDD).
In 2006 and 2011, 64 and 166 cases were reported, a 260% increase in reported cases; respective incidence rates were 0.76 and 1.97 cases per 100,000 population.
The incidence increased again in 2003 when 76 new cases were reported.
Furthermore, rapid increases in numbers of human cases were reported in Qujing, Zhaotong, Honghe and Kunming Prefectures during 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2010, respectively; the number of cases in Yuxi, Puer, and Xishuangbanna Prefectures also began to show an increasing trend.
