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Volume 20, Number 2—February 2014
Dispatch

Rift Valley Fever Outbreak, Southern Mauritania, 2012

Abdourahmane Sow1, Ousmane Faye1, Yamar Ba, Hampathé Ba, Diawo Diallo, Oumar Faye, Cheikh Loucoubar, Mohamed Boushab, Yahya Barry, Mawlouth Diallo, and Amadou Alpha SallComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Unité des arbovirus et des Fièvres Hémorragiques Virales de l’Institut Pasteur de Dakar, Dakar, Senegal (A. Sow, Ousmane Faye, Oumar Faye, C. Loucoubar, A.A. Sall); Unité d’Entomologie Médicale de l’Institut Pasteur de Dakar, Dakar (Y. Ba, D. Diallo, M. Diallo); Institut National de Recherche et de la Santé Publique de Nouakchott, Nouakchott, Mauritania (H. Ba); Ministère de la Santé de la République Islamique de Mauritanie, Mauritania (M. Boushab); Centre National d’Etude et de Recherches Vétérinaires, Nouackchott (Y. Barry)

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Table 1

Attack rates and lethality of human Rift Valley fever cases, by region, sex, and age, southern Mauritania, November 2012

Category No. confirmed cases (no. deaths) No. probable cases Attack rate, cases/ 1,000 population Death rate, % Total population
Region
Moudjeria 16 (4) 3 0.39 25.0 48,751
Tiguidja 4 (3) 2 0.128 75.0 46,944
Tamcheket 7 (0) 2 0.22 0 40,887
Tintane 3 (1) 0 0.035 33.0 84,649
Kiffa 1 (0) 8 0.088 0 102,057
Macta lajar 2 (1) 4 0.095 50.0 62,857
Ouad Naga 2 (1) 3 0.143 50.0 34,898
Guerou 1 (1) 0 0.024 100.0 41,844
Aleg 1 (0) 0 0.011 0 88,077
Djigueni 1 (0) 0 0.017 0 58,619
Amourj 1 (1) 0 0.001 100.0 936,619
Nema
 2 (1)
 0
 0.024
 50.0
 84,242
Sex
M 18 (7) 10 0.036 38.9 782,614
F
 23 (6)
 12
 0.041
 26.1
 847,830
Age group, y
0–14 5 (0) 2 0.011 0 658,699
15–44 29 (12) 15 0.071 41.4 622,831
45–64 3 (0) 3 0.021 0 291,849
>65
 4 (1)
 2
 0.105
 25.0
 57,065
Total 41 (13) 22 0.039 31.7 1,630,444

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1These authors contributed equally to this article and are co–first authors.

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