Volume 22, Number 4—April 2016
Dispatch
Low-Cost National Media-Based Surveillance System for Public Health Events, Bangladesh
Trong T. Ao, Mahmudur Rahman, Farhana Haque, Apurba Chakraborty, M. Jahangir Hossain, Sabbir Haider, A.S.M. Alamgir, Jeremy Sobel, Stephen P. Luby, and Emily S. Gurley
Table 2
Case numbers for media-reported outbreaks, by cause and season, Bangladesh, May 2010–September 2011
| Reported etiology | No. (%) cases |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pre-monsoon, Mar–May | Monsoon, Jun–Sep | Post-monsoon, Oct–Nov | Winter, Dec–Feb | Total | |
| Diarrhea | 24 (50) | 7 (15) | 10 (21) | 7 (15) | 48 (100) |
| Anthrax | 3 (14) | 19 (86) | 0 | 0 | 22 (100) |
| Mass psychogenic illness | 9 (45) | 10 (50) | 0 | 1 (5) | 20 (100) |
| Upper respiratory infection | 0 | 2 (33) | 3 (50) | 1 (17) | 6 (100) |
| Measles | 3 (60) | 0 | 0 | 2 (40) | 5 (100) |
| Other/unknown |
31 (33) |
49 (52) |
5 (5) |
10 (11) |
95 (100) |
| Total | 70 (36) | 87 (44) | 18 (9) | 21 (11) | 196 (100) |
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