Volume 17, Number 4—April 2011
Letter
Concurrent Influenza and Shigellosis Outbreaks, Papua New Guinea, 2009
Alexander Rosewell
, Rosheila Dagina, Manoj Murhekar, Berry Ropa, Enoch Posanai, Samir Dutta, Ian G. Barr, Glen Mola, Anthony Zwi, and C. Raina MacIntyre
, Rosheila Dagina, Manoj Murhekar, Berry Ropa, Enoch Posanai, Samir Dutta, Ian G. Barr, Glen Mola, Anthony Zwi, and C. Raina MacIntyreTable
Descriptive epidemiology of concurrent outbreaks of bloody diarrhea and influenza-like illness, Menyamya District, Papua New Guinea, 2009
| Variable | No. (%) patients* |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bloody diarrhea, n = 50 | Influenza-like illness, n = 431 | Possible co-infection, n = 131 | Nonfebrile respiratory illness, n = 92 | Total, n = 704 | |
| Aid post | |||||
| Hakwange | 25 (50.0) | 256 (59.4) | 50 (38.2) | 67 (72.8) | 398 (56.5) |
| Kome | 10 (20.0) | 64 (14.9) | 27 (20.6) | 12 (13.0) | 113 (16.1) |
| Kulolonguli |
15 (30.0) |
111 (25.8) |
54 (41.2) |
13 (14.1) |
193 (27.4) |
| Male sex |
24 (48.0) |
206 (47.8) |
71 (54.2) |
40 (43.5) |
341 (48.4) |
| Age group, y | |||||
| <5 | 11 (22.0) | 118 (27.4) | 33 (25.2) | 10 (10.9) | 172 (24.4) |
| 5–14 | 14 (28.0) | 103 (23.9) | 23 (17.6) | 22 (23.9) | 162 (23.0) |
| 15–44 | 21 (42.0) | 169 (39.2) | 58 (44.3) | 50 (54.4) | 298 (42.3) |
| >45 | 4 (8.0) | 39 (9.1) | 17 (13.0) | 8 (8.7) | 68 (9.7) |
| Unknown |
0 |
2 (0.5) |
0 |
2 (2.2) |
4 (0.6) |
| Date of onset | |||||
| June | 0 | 6 (1.4) | 3 (2.3) | 2 (2.2) | 11 (1.6) |
| July | 9 (18.0) | 36 (8.4) | 21 (16.0) | 7 (7.6) | 73 (10.4) |
| August | 29 (58.0) | 294 (68.2) | 76 (58.0) | 57 (62.0) | 456 (64.8) |
| Unknown |
12 (24.0) |
95 (22.0) |
31 (23.7) |
26 (28.3) |
164 (23.3) |
| Died | 1 (2.0) | 8 (1.9) | 5 (3.8) | 2 (2.2) | 16 (2.3) |
*Categories are mutually exclusive.
