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Reportable Medical Events at Military Health System Facilities Through Week 1, Ending January 4, 2025

Image of RMEs. Reportable medical events are documented in the Disease Reporting System internet to monitor, control, and prevent the occurrence and spread of diseases of public health interest or readiness importance.

2/1/2025 By: Idalia Aguirre, MPH; Matthew W. R. Allman, MPH; Anthony R. Marquez, MPH; Katherine S. Kotas, MPH

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Reportable Medical Events are documented in the Disease Reporting System internet by health care providers and public health officials throughout the Military Health System for monitoring, controlling, and preventing the occurrence and spread of diseases of public health interest or readiness importance. These reports are reviewed by each service’s public health surveillance hub. The DRSi collects reports on over 70 different RMEs, including infectious and non-infectious conditions, outbreak reports, STI risk surveys, and tuberculosis contact investigation reports. A complete list of RMEs is available in the 2022 Armed Forces Reportable Medical Events Guidelines and Case Definitions.1 Data reported in these tables are considered provisional and do not represent conclusive evidence until case reports are fully validated.

Table of reportable medical events week ending Jan. 4, 2025

Total active component cases reported per week are displayed for the top five RMEs for the previous year. Each month, the graph is updated with the top five RMEs, and is presented with the current month’s (December 2024) top five RMEs, which may differ from previous months. COVID-19 is excluded from these graphs due to changes in reporting and case definition updates in 2023.

FIGURE. Top 5 Reportable Medical Events by Calendar Week, Active Component (January 13, 2024-January 4, 2025). This graph comprises five discrete lines on the horizontal, or x-, axis that depict case counts for the five most frequent reportable medical event conditions among active component service members during the past 52 weeks. The horizontal, or x-, axis is divided into 52 units of measure, each representing an individual week during the preceding year. The vertical, or y-, axis is presented on a logarithmic scale, in segments of one through 10, then 10 through 100, and 100, through 1,000. Chlamydia is consistently the most common reportable medical condition, normally around 300 per week. All reported cases for each condition, with the exception of norovirus, dropped significantly in the last two weeks of the reporting period, likely due to end of year data reporting issues. Consequently, norovirus was the most frequently reported medical event during the first week of 2025, at around 20 cases per week.

For questions about this report, please contact the Disease Epidemiology Branch at the Defense Centers for Public Health–Aberdeen. Email: dha.apg.pub-health-a.mbx.disease-epidemiologyprogram13@health.mil

Authors' Affiliation

Defense Health Agency, Disease Epidemiology Branch, Defense Centers for Public Health–Aberdeen

References

  1. Armed Forces Health Surveillance Division. Armed Forces Reportable Medical Events. Accessed Feb. 28, 2024. https://health.mil/reference-center/publications/2022/11/01/armed-forces-reportable-medical-events-guidelines 
  2. Defense Manpower Data Center. Department of Defense Active Duty Military Personnel by Rank/Grade of Service. Accessed Feb. 28, 2024. https://dwp.dmdc.osd.mil/dwp/app/dod-data-reports/workforce-reports 
  3. Defense Manpower Data Center. Armed Forces Strength Figures for January 31, 2023. Accessed Feb. 28, 2024. https://dwp.dmdc.osd.mil/dwp/app/dod-data-reports/workforce-reports 
  4. Navy Medicine. Surveillance and Reporting Tools–DRSI: Disease Reporting System Internet. Accessed Feb. 28, 2024. https://www.med.navy.mil/navy-marine-corps-public-health-center/preventive-medicine/program-and-policy-support/disease-surveillance/drsI

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