Volume 8, Number 5—May 2002
Dispatch
Outbreak of Neisseria meningitidis, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Gregory J. Tyrrell*†
, Linda Chui*, Marcia Johnson‡, Nicholas Chang*, Robert P. Rennie*†, James A. Talbot*†, and The Edmonton Meningococcal Study Group
, Linda Chui*, Marcia Johnson‡, Nicholas Chang*, Robert P. Rennie*†, James A. Talbot*†, and The Edmonton Meningococcal Study GroupTable
Rates of Neisseria meningitidis disease in the Edmonton, Canada, region (per 100,000)a
| Rate | Age (cases) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| <1 | 2-4 | 5-9 | 10-14 | 15-19 | 20-24 | 25-34 | 35-59 | >60 | |
| 17-month periodb | 50.0 (9) | 9.7 (3) | 5.3 (3) | 6.8 (4) | 35.7 (20) | 10.6 (6) | 4.0 (5) | 2.3 (7) | 1.7 (3) |
| Annualized | 37.5 | 7.3 | 4.0 | 5.1 | 26.8 | 8.0 | 3.0 | 1.8 | 1.3 |
a Population=827,507 (6).
b December 1999 through April 2001.
1The Provincial Laboratory of Public Health for Alberta; Dora Lee, The Capital Health Authority; Kari Bergstrom, Gerald Predy, Alberta Health and Wellness; Karen Grimsrud, Agnes Honish and John Waters.
