Volume 21, Number 1—January 2015
CME ACTIVITY - Synopsis
Epidemiology of Human Plague in the United States, 1900–2012
Kiersten J. Kugeler
, J. Erin Staples, Alison Hinckley, Kenneth L. Gage, and Paul S. Mead
, J. Erin Staples, Alison Hinckley, Kenneth L. Gage, and Paul S. Mead
Table 2
Mortality among the plague patients in the preantibiotic (1900–1941) and antibiotic (1942–2012) eras, United States
| Characteristic | No. deaths/no. cases (%) |
||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1900–1941 | 1942–2012 | ||
| Total per period |
336/511 (66) |
75/478 (16) |
|
| Sex | |||
| M | 238/353 (67) | 53/282 (19) | |
| F |
93/145 (64) |
22/195 (11) |
|
| Race/ethnicity | |||
| White | 123/231 (53) | 34/205 (17) | |
| Asian | 121/127 (95) | 1/3 (33) | |
| American Indian | 1/1 (100) | 19/122 (16) | |
| Hispanic | 38/47 (81) | 6/44 (14) | |
| Black |
10/11 (91) |
0 |
|
| Primary clinical form | |||
| Bubonic | 235/354 (66) | 47/375 (13) | |
| Pneumonic | 55/59 (93) | 5/14 (36) | |
| Septicemic | 8/9 (89) | 21/78 (27) | |
| Pharyngeal | 2/3 (67) | 2/3 (67) | |
| Gastrointestinal | 0 | 0/2 | |
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