Table 26. Primary and secondary syphilis—Women–Reported cases and rates by state/area and region listed in alphabetical order: United States and outlying areas, 2004-2008

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State/Area	Cases					Rates per 100,000 Population
State/Area	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
Alabama	52	69	116	143	171	2.2	2.9	4.9	6.0	7.2
Alaska	0	1	2	1	0	0.0	0.3	0.6	0.3	0.0
Arizona	42	49	33	64	56	1.5	1.7	1.1	2.0	1.8
Arkansas	18	21	35	50	81	1.3	1.5	2.4	3.5	5.6
California	63	121	128	115	110	0.4	0.7	0.7	0.6	0.6
Colorado	7	2	5	2	3	0.3	0.1	0.2	0.1	0.1
Connecticut	3	2	2	2	0	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0
Delaware	1	2	4	1	6	0.2	0.5	0.9	0.2	1.3
District of Columbia	4	11	6	5	7	1.4	3.8	1.9	1.6	2.3
Florida	98	100	98	153	193	1.1	1.1	1.1	1.6	2.1
Georgia	45	47	41	53	96	1.0	1.0	0.9	1.1	2.0
Hawaii	0	0	1	1	7	0.0	0.0	0.2	0.2	1.1
Idaho	11	6	2	1	1	1.6	0.8	0.3	0.1	0.1
Illinois	55	47	37	39	38	0.9	0.7	0.6	0.6	0.6
Indiana	6	10	10	8	16	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.5
Iowa	1	1	6	3	3	0.1	0.1	0.4	0.2	0.2
Kansas	7	2	2	6	5	0.5	0.1	0.1	0.4	0.4
Kentucky	6	3	7	9	14	0.3	0.1	0.3	0.4	0.6
Louisiana	123	112	123	209	307	5.3	4.8	5.6	9.5	13.9
Maine	0	0	2	0	0	0.0	0.0	0.3	0.0	0.0
Maryland	92	88	61	47	77	3.2	3.0	2.1	1.6	2.7
Massachusetts	5	4	7	10	6	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.3	0.2
Michigan	61	20	26	27	60	1.2	0.4	0.5	0.5	1.2
Minnesota	3	2	4	1	5	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.0	0.2
Mississippi	19	12	36	35	66	1.3	0.8	2.4	2.3	4.4
Missouri	12	12	19	27	29	0.4	0.4	0.6	0.9	1.0
Montana	1	1	0	2	1	0.2	0.2	0.0	0.4	0.2
Nebraska	4	0	1	0	3	0.5	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.3
Nevada	8	24	34	12	14	0.7	2.0	2.8	1.0	1.1
New Hampshire	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
New Jersey	38	17	12	16	21	0.9	0.4	0.3	0.4	0.5
New Mexico	36	16	22	15	6	3.7	1.6	2.2	1.5	0.6
New York	32	28	29	32	52	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.5
North Carolina	48	58	67	60	44	1.1	1.3	1.5	1.3	0.9
North Dakota	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Ohio	61	40	43	28	63	1.0	0.7	0.7	0.5	1.1
Oklahoma	9	17	19	24	25	0.5	0.9	1.0	1.3	1.4
Oregon	1	2	0	2	2	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.1	0.1
Pennsylvania	16	34	34	34	21	0.3	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.3
Rhode Island	10	6	0	2	0	1.8	1.1	0.0	0.4	0.0
South Carolina	25	17	11	10	12	1.2	0.8	0.5	0.4	0.5
South Dakota	0	0	5	2	1	0.0	0.0	1.3	0.5	0.3
Tennessee	34	64	73	113	119	1.1	2.1	2.4	3.6	3.8
Texas	179	243	261	297	450	1.6	2.1	2.2	2.5	3.8
Utah	3	1	3	0	1	0.3	0.1	0.2	0.0	0.1
Vermont	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Virginia	6	19	23	16	25	0.2	0.5	0.6	0.4	0.6
Washington	6	5	4	6	5	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.2
West Virginia	1	0	1	2	4	0.1	0.0	0.1	0.2	0.4
Wisconsin	2	3	3	6	14	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.5
Wyoming	1	0	0	1	2	0.4	0.0	0.0	0.4	0.8
U.S. TOTAL	1,255	1,339	1,458	1,692	2,242	0.8	0.9	1.0	1.1	1.5
Northeast	104	91	86	96	100	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.4
Midwest	212	137	156	147	237	0.6	0.4	0.5	0.4	0.7
South	760	883	982	1,227	1,697	1.4	1.6	1.8	2.2	3.0
West	179	228	234	222	208	0.5	0.7	0.7	0.6	0.6
Guam	0	1	1	4	1	0.0	1.2	1.2	4.7	1.2
Puerto Rico	62	81	46	56	29	3.1	4.0	2.3	2.7	1.4
Virgin Islands	3	0	0	0	0	5.3	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
OUTLYING AREAS	65	82	47	60	30	3.0	3.8	2.2	2.7	1.4
TOTAL	1,320	1,421	1,505	1,752	2,272	0.9	0.9	1.0	1.1	1.5

NOTE: Cases reported with unknown sex are not included in this table.

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