Volume 22, Number 8—August 2016
Research
Exposure-Specific and Age-Specific Attack Rates for Ebola Virus Disease in Ebola-Affected Households, Sierra Leone
Table 2
Distribution of outcomes by age and sex among Kerry Town Ebola Treatment Centre survivors and their household members, Sierra Leone, 2014–2015*
| Characteristic | Total | No. (%) |
Overall % EVD# | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Persons with no symptoms | Persons with some symptoms† | SympCD and neg test‡ | SympCD and no test§ | EVD survivors | Probable EVD deaths¶ | EVD deaths | |||
| Total |
933 |
431 (46.2) |
35 (3.8) |
19 (2.0) |
42 (4.5) |
168 (18.0) |
11 (1.2) |
227 (24.3) |
48 |
| Sex | |||||||||
| M | 399 | 184 (46.1) | 19 (4.8) | 11 (2.8) | 20 (5.0) | 62 (15.5) | 5 (1.3) | 98 (24.6) | 46 |
| F |
534 |
247 (46.3) |
16 (3.0) |
8 (1.5) |
22 (4.1) |
106 (19.9) |
6 (1.1) |
129 (24.2) |
49 |
| Age, y** | |||||||||
| <2 | 54 | 27 (50.0) | 2 (3.7) | 0 | 1 (1.9) | 4 (7.4) | 1 (1.9) | 19 (35.2) | 46 |
| 2–4 | 86 | 49 (57.0) | 2 (2.3) | 2 (2.3) | 8 (9.3) | 9 (10.5) | 1 (1.2) | 15 (17.4) | 38 |
| 5–9 | 131 | 82 (62.6) | 4 (3.1) | 4 (3.1) | 11 (8.4) | 15 (11.5) | 0 (0.0) | 15 (11.5) | 31 |
| 10–14 | 121 | 78 (64.5) | 3 (2.5) | 3 (2.5) | 8 (6.6) | 18 (14.9) | 0 | 11 (9.1) | 31 |
| 15–19 | 107 | 57 (53.3) | 4 (3.7) | 2 (1.9) | 1 (0.9) | 28 (26.2) | 0 | 15 (14.0) | 41 |
| 20–29 | 178 | 76 (42.7) | 8 (4.5) | 4 (2.2) | 10 (5.6) | 49 (27.5) | 1 (0.6) | 30 (16.9) | 51 |
| 30–39 | 114 | 31 (27.2) | 3 (2.6) | 3 (2.6) | 3 (2.6) | 26 (22.8) | 3 (2.6) | 45 (39.5) | 68 |
| 40–49 | 62 | 12 (19.4) | 4 (6.5) | 1 (1.6) | 0 | 12 (19.4) | 4 (6.5) | 29 (46.8) | 73 |
| >50 | 76 | 18 (23.7) | 5 (6.6) | 0 | 0 | 7 (9.2) | 0 | 46 (60.5) | 70 |
*Excluded are 4 persons who died with uncertain cause (3 females, 1 male). EVD, Ebola virus disease.
†Persons had some EVD symptoms but did not fulfill case definition.
‡Persons met EVD case definition on interview but reported a negative PCR test for Ebola.
§Persons met EVD case definition on interview but were never tested.
¶Description of symptoms leading to death were compatible with Ebola, but EVD was not diagnosed at the time.
#Overall % EVD includes EVD cases and deaths, SympCD and no test, and Probable EVD deaths as case-patients.
**Age missing for 4 persons (2 reported EVD deaths, 1 probable EVD death, 1 with no symptoms).