During the month of October 2025, the China National Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported a total of 1,191,646 cases of notifiable infectious diseases nationwide (excluding Hong Kong, Macao Special Administrative Regions and Taiwan region, the same below), with 2,054 deaths.
Three cases of Class A infectious diseases were reported, all of which were cholera cases, with no deaths reported.
A total of 263,784 cases of Class B infectious diseases were reported, with 2,054 deaths.
The top five diseases in terms of reported cases were viral hepatitis (116,746 cases/247 deaths), with nearly 100,000 cases being hepatitis B and more than 200 deaths caused by hepatitis C. This is followed by syphilis (50,354 cases/7 deaths), tuberculosis (50,265/240 deaths), novel coronavirus infection (18,704), and gonorrhea (10,003), accounting for 93.3% of all reported Class B infectious disease cases.
Other Class B infectious diseases include mpox with 71 total cases, of which 66 were locally transmitted cases and 5 imported cases. Of the 66 locally transmitted cases, all were clade IIb; of the 5 imported cases, 1 was clade Ib and 4 were clade IIb.
22 human rabies deaths were reported. 3,298 brucellosis cases and 34 anthrax cases were also included this month.
During the same period, a total of 927,859 cases of Class C infectious diseases were reported, with no deaths. The top three diseases in terms of reported cases were influenza (427,083), hand-foot-mouth disease (378,738), and other infectious diarrheal diseases (112,656), accounting for 99.0% of all reported cases of Class C infectious diseases.