Early Detection of Pandemic (H1N1) 2009, Bangladesh
Eduardo Azziz-Baumgartner

, Mustafizur Rahman, Abdullah Al Mamun, Mohammad Sabbir Haider, Rashid Uz Zaman, Polash Chandra Karmakar, Sharifa Nasreen, Syeda Mah-E Muneer, Nusrat Homaira, Doli Rani Goswami, Be-Nazir Ahmed, Mohammad Mushtuq Husain, Khondokar Mahbuba Jamil, Selina Khatun, Mujaddeed Ahmed, Apurba Chakraborty, Alicia Fry, Marc-Alain Widdowson, Joseph S. Bresee, Tasnim Azim, A.S.M. Alamgir, Abdullah Brooks, Mohamed Jahangir Hossain, Alexander Klimov, Mahmudur Rahman, and Stephen P. Luby
Author affiliations: International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh (E. Azziz-Baumgartner, M. Rahman, A.A. Mamun, R.U. Zaman, P.C. Karmakar, S. Nasreen, S. Mah-E-Muneer, N. Homaira, D.R. Goswami, A. Chakraborty, T. Azim, A. Brooks, M.J. Hossain, S.P. Luby); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (E. Azziz-Baumgartner, A. Fry, M.-A. Widdowson, J. Bresee, A. Klimov, S.P. Luby); Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research, Dhaka (M.S. Haider, B.-N. Ahmed, M.M. Husain, K.M. Jamil, A. Chakraborty, A.S.M. Alamgir, M. Rahman); World Health Organization, Dhaka (S. Khatun, M. Ahmed)
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Table 1
Demographics of confirmed case-patients with pandemic (H1N1) 2009 virus by surveillance platform, Bangladesh, June 2009–October 2010
Surveillance type |
Age, median (range) |
No. (%) female patients |
No. (%) travelers |
Event-based, n = 182 |
24 y (4 mo–72 y) |
71 (39) |
51 (28)* |
Sentinel-site, n = 527 |
20 y (1 mo–70 y) |
182 (35)† |
21 (4) |
Kamalapur community-based, n = 621 |
6 y (3 mo–76 y)‡ |
303 (49) |
0 |
Mirpur community-based, n = 41 |
16 mo (3–26 mo) |
17 (41) |
2 (5) |
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