Volume 14, Number 11—November 2008
Dispatch
Tourism and Specific Risk Areas for Cryptococcus gattii, Vancouver Island, Canada
Catharine Chambers, Laura MacDougall, Min Li, and Eleni Galanis
Table
Proportion of cases of Cryptococcus gattii infection compared with proportion of BC residents who visited Tourism BC visitor centers, by location, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, 1999–2006*
| Location | 1999–2002 |
2003–2006 |
All years |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. (%) cases | No. (%) visits | % Difference | No. (%) cases | No. (%) visits | % Difference | No. (%) cases | No. (%) visits | % Difference | |||
| Nanaimo | 26 (20.3) | 20,160 (6.5) | 13.8† | 14 (23.7) | 35,169 (8.0) | 15.7† | 40 (21.4) | 55,329 (7.4) | 14.0† | ||
| Parksville | 25 (19.5) | 24,095 (7.8) | 11.8† | 10 (16.9) | 30,070 (6.9) | 10.1 | 35 (18.7) | 54,165 (7.2) | 11.5† | ||
| Duncan | 12 (9.4) | 20,484 (6.6) | 2.8 | 4 (6.8) | 25,973 (5.9) | 0.9 | 16 (8.6) | 46,457 (6.2) | 2.3 | ||
| Victoria | 24 (18.8) | 58,092 (18.8) | 0 | 16 (27.1) | 94,452 (21.6) | 5.6 | 40 (21.4) | 152,544 (20.4) | 1.0 | ||
| Qualicum Beach | 8 (6.3) | 14,197 (4.6) | 1.7 | 3 (5.1) | 26,429 (6.0) | −0.9 | 11 (5.9) | 40,626 (5.4) | 0.4 | ||
| Port McNeill | 1 (0.8) | 5,985 (1.9) | −1.2 | 0 | 6,378 (1.5) | −1.5 | 1 (0.5) | 12,363 (1.7) | −1.1 | ||
| Courtenay | 8 (6.3) | 35,051 (11.3) | −5.1 | 4 (6.8) | 30,859 (7.0) | −0.3 | 12 (6.4) | 65,910 (8.8) | −2.4 | ||
| Saltspring Island | 4 (3.1) | 19,093 (6.2) | −3.0 | 1 (1.7) | 20,744 (4.7) | −3.0 | 5 (2.7) | 39,837 (5.3) | −2.7 | ||
| Chemainus | 3 (2.3) | 13,374 (4.3) | −2.0 | 1 (1.7) | 23,273 (5.3) | −3.6 | 4 (2.1) | 36,647 (4.9) | −2.8 | ||
| Port Alberni | 4 (3.1) | 23,466 (7.6) | −4.5 | 4 (6.8) | 30,760 (7.0) | −0.2 | 8 (4.3) | 54,226 (7.3) | −3.0 | ||
| Sooke | 3 (2.3) | 15,450 (5.0) | −2.6 | 0 | 19,485 (4.4) | −4.4 | 3 (1.6) | 34,935 (4.7) | −3.1 | ||
| Alert Bay | 0 | 7,891 (2.5) | −2.5 | 0 | 18,107 (4.1) | −4.1 | 0 | 25,998 (3.5) | −3.5† | ||
| Campbell River | 8 (6.3) | 29,219 (9.4) | −3.2 | 2 (3.4) | 49,830 (11.4) | −8.0 | 10 (5.3) | 79,049 (10.6) | −5.2 | ||
| Port Hardy |
2 (1.6) |
23,106 (7.5) |
−5.9 |
0 |
26,616 (6.1) |
−6.1 |
2 (1.1) |
49,722 (6.6) |
−5.6† |
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| All centers | 128 | 309,663 | – | 59 | 438,145 | – | 187 | 747,808 | – | ||
*Visitor centers that were only opened seasonally were not included in the analysis. BC, British Columbia.
†Significant differences after adjustment for multiple comparisons according to Fisher exact test (p<0.0036).
