Volume 15, Number 10—October 2009
Dispatch
Surveillance System for Infectious Diseases of Pets, Santiago, Chile
Table 1
Average number of notifications per sentinel center, according to health service, Santiago, Chile, October 2004–September 2005*
Health Service | Poverty (%)† | Average no. notifications |
|
---|---|---|---|
Dogs | Cats | ||
South−East | 13.7 | 160.1 | 20.1 |
West | 13.2 | 349.7 | 52.3 |
South | 11.7 | 189.6 | 36.4 |
North | 9.5 | 143.8 | 22.6 |
Central | 8.0 | 62.0 | 22.3 |
East | 6.6 | 74.5 | 18.5 |
*First year of pilot surveillance system
†Average poverty rate of the districts belonging to each health service.
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