Volume 18, Number 1—January 2012
Dispatch
Early Detection of Pandemic (H1N1) 2009, Bangladesh
Eduardo Azziz-Baumgartner
, Mustafizur Rahman, Abdullah Al Mamun, Mohammad Sabbir Haider, Rashid Uz Zaman, Polash Chandra Karmakar, Sharifa Nasreen, Syeda Mah-E Muneer, Nusrat Homaira, Doli Rani Goswami, Be-Nazir Ahmed, Mohammad Mushtuq Husain, Khondokar Mahbuba Jamil, Selina Khatun, Mujaddeed Ahmed, Apurba Chakraborty, Alicia Fry, Marc-Alain Widdowson, Joseph Bresee, Tasnim Azim, A.S.M. Alamgir, Abdullah Brooks, Mohamed Jahangir Hossain, Alexander Klimov, Mahmudur Rahman, and Stephen P. Luby
, Mustafizur Rahman, Abdullah Al Mamun, Mohammad Sabbir Haider, Rashid Uz Zaman, Polash Chandra Karmakar, Sharifa Nasreen, Syeda Mah-E Muneer, Nusrat Homaira, Doli Rani Goswami, Be-Nazir Ahmed, Mohammad Mushtuq Husain, Khondokar Mahbuba Jamil, Selina Khatun, Mujaddeed Ahmed, Apurba Chakraborty, Alicia Fry, Marc-Alain Widdowson, Joseph Bresee, Tasnim Azim, A.S.M. Alamgir, Abdullah Brooks, Mohamed Jahangir Hossain, Alexander Klimov, Mahmudur Rahman, and Stephen P. LubyTable 1
Demographics of confirmed case-patients with pandemic (H1N1) 2009 virus by surveillance platform, Bangladesh, June 2009–October 2010
| Surveillance type | Age, median (range) | No. (%) female patients | No. (%) travelers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Event-based, n = 182 | 24 y (4 mo–72 y) | 71 (39) | 51 (28)* |
| Sentinel-site, n = 527 | 20 y (1 mo–70 y) | 182 (35)† | 21 (4) |
| Kamalapur community-based, n = 621 | 6 y (3 mo–76 y)‡ | 303 (49) | 0 |
| Mirpur community-based, n = 41 | 16 mo (3–26 mo) | 17 (41) | 2 (5) |
*Comparison between event-based vs. other surveillance sites, Pearson χ2 p<0.0001.
†Comparison between sentinel-based vs. other surveillance sites, Pearson χ2 p<0.0001.
‡Comparison between Kamalapur-based vs. other surveillance sites, rank-sum p<0.0001.
