Volume 17, Number 1—January 2011
Dispatch
Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 Outbreak at Camp for Children with Hematologic and Oncologic Conditions
Cori Morrison, Paola Maurtua-Neumann, Myo Thwin Myint, Stacy S. Drury, and Rodolfo E. Bégué
Table 1
Attack rates of influenza-illness according to age and underlying medical condition at summer camp for children with hematologic and oncologic conditions, Louisiana, USA, 2009*
| Age group, y |
Underlying condition, no. positive/no. tested (%) |
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| No† |
Yes‡ |
All§ |
|
| 5–15 | 19/54 (35.2) | 18/33 (54.5) | 37/87 (42.5) |
| 16–30 | 10/41 (24.4) | 11/28 (39.3) | 21/69 (30.4) |
| 31–69 | 0/6 (0) | 1/3 (33.3) | 1/9 (11.1) |
| Total | 29/101 (28.7) | 30/64 (46.9) | 59/165 (35.8) |
*By χ2 test for trend for increasing age groups within each category.
†p = 0.049.
‡p = 0.255.
§p = 0.027.
