Volume 17, Number 1—January 2011
Dispatch
Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 Outbreak at Camp for Children with Hematologic and Oncologic Conditions
Cori Morrison, Paola Maurtua-Neumann, Myo Thwin Myint, Stacy S. Drury, and Rodolfo E. Bégué
Table 2
Risk for influenza and hospitalization according to category of underlying condition at summer camp for children with hematologic and oncologic conditions, Louisiana, USA, 2009*
| Underlying condition |
Risk for influenza symptoms | Risk for hospitalization, if symptomatic | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Staff |
Campers |
All |
Staff |
Campers |
All |
||
| None | 10/56 (17.9) | 19/45 (42.2) | 29/101 (28.7) | 0/10/(0) | 0/19 (0) | 0/29 (0) | |
| Other than cancer or sickle cell disease | 7/22 (31.8) | 1/4 (25.0) | 8/26 (30.8) | 0/7 (0) | 0/1 (0) | 0/8 (0) | |
| Cancer | 4/7 (57.1)† | 9/20 (45.0) | 13/27 (48.1)† | 0/4 (0) | 4/9 (44.4)‡ | 4/13 (30.8)‡ | |
| Sickle cell disease | 2/3 (66.6)† | 7/8 (87.5)† | 9/11 (81.8)‡ | 2/2 (100)† | 6/7 (85.7)§ | 8/9 (88.9)§ | |
| Total | 23/88 (26.1) | 36/77 (46.8) | 59/165 (35.8) | 2/23 (8.7) | 10/36 (27.8) | 12/59 (20.3) | |
*Values given as no. in category/total no. with condition (%). Boldface indicates significance. Data were analyzed by using 2-tailed Fisher exact test for each category compared with persons with no underlying condition.
†p = 0.01–0.05.
‡p = 0.0001–0.01.
§p<0.0001.
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