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Volume 12, Number 1—January 2006
Dispatch

Influenza, Winter Olympiad, 2002

Adi V. Gundlapalli*Comments to Author , Michael A. Rubin*, Matthew H. Samore*†, Bert Lopansri*, Timothy Lahey*, Heather L. McGuire*, Kevin L. Winthrop‡, James J. Dunn§, Stuart E. Willick*, Randal L. Vosters¶, Joseph F. Waeckerle#, Karen C. Carroll*§, Jack M. Gwaltney**, Frederick G. Hayden**, Mark R. Elstad*†, and Merle A. Sande*
Author affiliations: *University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA; †Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA; ‡Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; §ARUP Laboratories, Inc., Salt Lake City, Utah, USA; ¶Lakeshore Medical Clinic, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA; #Kansas City School of Medicine, Kansas City, Missouri, USA; **University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

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Table 2

Patients treated, 2002 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games

Characteristic Influenza A or B Noninfluenza Odds ratio (95% CI*), p adjusted
No. patients treated 36 152
Accreditation (%)
Organizing committee volunteers and staff 14 (39) 69 (45) Reference
Athletes 13 (36) 33 (22) 2 (0.8–4.6), p = 0.1†
Law enforcement personnel 4 (11) 26 (17) 1.3 (0.2–2.5), p = 0.7
Olympic family 5 (14) 24 (16) 1 (0.3–3.2), p = 0.9
Age, y, mean (standard deviation [SD]) 32 (10) 35 (13) 0.7 (0.4–1.0), p = 0.08‡
Sex, male % 78 56 5.5 (1.6–18.3), p = 0.006
Symptom duration, mean/median days (SD) 2.9/2 (3.5) 3.7/2 (5) 2.0 (0.7–5.8), p = 0.2§
History of influenza vaccination (%) 7 (19) 37 (24) 1.7 (0.5–1.6), p = 0.4
Temperature >37.8ºC (%) 14 (39) 7 (5) 13 (4.7–36), p<0.001
Symptoms (%)
History of fever 22 (61) 40 (26) 1.2 (0.4–3.7), p = 0.8
Cough 33 (92) 90 (59) 25.7 (2.2–155), p<0.001
Chills 20 (56) 33 (22) 3.9 (1.2–12.8), p = 0.02
Myalgia 23 (64) 57 (38) 2.1 (0.7–6.4), p = 0.2
Sore throat 22 (61) 110 (72) 0.4 (0.1–1.4), p = 0.2

*CI, confidence interval.
†Athletes are a significant group when influenza A cases alone are considered, odds ratio 3, 95% CI (1.1–7.5) p = 0.03.
‡Age as grouped by decade.
§Symptom duration was grouped as <48 h or >48 h.

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