Volume 16, Number 7—July 2010
Dispatch
Fatal Babesiosis in Man, Finland, 2004
Karita Haapasalo, Pekka Suomalainen, Antti Sukura, Heli Siikamäki, and T. Sakari Jokiranta
Table
Incidence of cattle babesiosis, Finland*
| District | Year |
||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | 1975 | 2000 | 2002 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | |
| Southern | – | – | 21 | 7 | 23 | 6 | 11 |
| Eastern† | – | – | 39 | 31 | 27 | 28 | 18 |
| Oulu | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Lapland | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Ahvenanmaa | – | – | 18 | 12 | 18 | 2 | 0 |
| Western |
– |
– |
1 |
1 |
6 |
6 |
2 |
| Total | 4,796 | 2,524 | 79 | 51 | 74 | 42 | 312 |
*–, no district data were available.
†Region where the index case-patient lived.
