Dengue Outbreaks in High-Income Area, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan, 2003–2009

Chia-Hsien Lin

, Karin L. Schiøler, Martin R. Jepsen, Chi-Kung Ho, Shu-Hua Li, and Flemming Konradsen

Author affiliations: University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark (C.-H. Lin, K.L. Schiøler, M.R. Jepsen, F. Konradsen); National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan (C.-H. Lin); Kaohsiung City Government, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan (C.-K. Ho, S.-H. Li); Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung City (C.-K. Ho); and National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung City (S.-H. Li)

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Table 3

Age-specific frequencies of reported clinical manifestations and average reported number of manifestations for confirmed dengue cases (N = 2,087) detected through passive or active surveillance, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan, 2003–2009

Variable	Age group, y
Variable	0–4	5–14	15–24	25–34	35–44	45–54	55–64	65–74	>74
Passive surveillance system
No. cases	14	92	161	220	226	310	297	172	57
Average no. manifestations	3.4	5.0	5.7	5.9	5.5	5.1	4.9	4.5	3.6
Manifestation, no.
Fever	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	0.9	0.9
Anorexia	0.4	0.7	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6
Headache	0.1	0.5	0.7	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.4	0.3
Arthralgia	0.0	0.2	0.5	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.3
Rash	0.6	0.7	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.3
Myalgia	0.1	0.3	0.5	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.5	0.4	0.3
Thirst	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.4	0.2
Diarrhea	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3
Nausea	0.0	0.3	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.3	0.2
Pruritus	0.1	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.0
Vomiting	0.4	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2
Retro-orbital pain	0.0	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0
Hemorrhagic manifestations	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Active surveillance system
No. cases	7	72	55	59	92	113	80	42	18
Average no. manifestations	2.2	3.5	4.4	4.6	4.6	3.8	3.1	1.9	1.2
Manifestation, no.
Fever	1.0	0.8	0.9	0.9	0.8	0.8	0.6	0.4	0.4
Anorexia	0.1	0.3	0.5	0.4	0.5	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.2
Headache	0.0	0.5	0.5	0.6	0.5	0.4	0.3	0.2	0.3
Arthralgia	0.0	0.2	0.2	0.4	0.5	0.4	0.3	0.2	0.2
Rash	0.4	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.1	0.0
Myalgia	0.0	0.2	0.3	0.5	0.5	0.4	0.3	0.1	0.1
Thirst	0.1	0.2	0.3	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.2	0.1
Diarrhea	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.1
Nausea	0.0	0.1	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.0
Pruritus	0.1	0.3	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.0
Vomiting	0.0	0.1	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0
Retro-orbital pain	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
Hemorrhagic manifestations	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	2.6	0.0	0.0

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