There were reports on infectious disease cases in 90 counties (county-level cities and districts) from 0:00 August 1 to 24:00 August 31, totaling 21 infectious diseases specified by law both in Class A and Class B and 17,147 cases, including 21 deaths. There were no reports on cases of plague, human infection of highly pathogenic avian influenza, SARS, polio, anthracnose and diphtheria.

In August 2008 the top five infectious diseases reported were tuberculosis, syphilis, hepatitis B, bacillary and amoebic dysentery and gonorrhea, accounting for 90.17% of all the cases reported. The infectious diseases reported to have caused deaths were AIDS (6), tuberculosis (5), newborn baby tetanus (4), rabies (3), hepatitis B (1), hepatitis E (1) and undifferentiated hepatitis (1).