Volume 7, Number 7—June 2001
THEME ISSUE
International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases 2000
Conference Panel Summary
Plague in the Americas
Alfonso Ruiz
Table 1
Plague: Reported Cases and Deaths, 1994-1999
| 1994 |
1995 |
1996 |
1997 |
1998 |
1999 |
|||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Country | Cases | Deaths | Cases | Deaths | Cases | Deaths | Cases | Deaths | Cases | Deaths | Cases | Deaths |
| Bolivia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Brazil | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| United States | 13 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
| Peru | 1,122 | 51 | 97 | 2 | 33 | 0 | 39 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 151 | 5 |
| Ecuador |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
*160 |
14 |
0 |
0 |
| Total | 1,135 | 52 | 105 | 3 | 55 | 4 | 44 | 1 | 189 | 14 | 160 | 5 |
*Estimate
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