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Volume 25, Number 1—January 2019
Research

Epidemiology of Imported Infectious Diseases, China, 2005–2016

Yali Wang1, Xuan Wang1, Xiaobo Liu1, Ruiqi Ren, Lei Zhou, Chao Li, Wenxiao Tu, Daxin Ni, Qun Li, Zijian Feng, and Yanping ZhangComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China (Y. Wang, X. Liu, R. Ren, L. Zhou, C. Li, W. Tu, D. Ni, Q. Li, Z. Feng, Y. Zhang); National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing (X. Liu); 302 Military Hospital of China, Beijing (X. Wang)

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Table 3

Imported infectious diseases in mainland China, by region of origin, 2005–2016*

Disease
 Africa
 Asia
 Oceania
 Europe
 North America
 South America
 Central America
 Not ascertainable
 Total
Malaria 14,854 9,160 68 5 2 18 0 3,390 27,497
Dengue 129 3,097 44 6 7 25 0 43 3,351
Influenza A(H1N1) 7 268 122 62 187 7 0 120 773
Chikungunya 2 12 0 0 0 1 0 3 18
Lyme disease 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 2
Scrub typhus 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 7
VL 1 12 0 1 0 0 0 0 14
JE 0 17 0 0 0 0 0 0 17
AFP 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
EHEC 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
EHF 5 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 7
Loiasis 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11
Schistosomiasis 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
CCHF 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
MERS 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Yellow fever 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10
Zika virus
 0
 0
 3
 0
 0
 19
 2
 0
 24
Total 15,021 12,581 237 75 197 70 2 3,556 31,740
% 47.3 39.6 0.8 0.2 0.6 0.2 0 11.2 100

*AFP, acute flaccid paralysis; CCHF, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever; EHEC, Escherichia coli O157:H7; EHF, epidemic hemorrhagic fever; JE, Japanese encephalitis; MERS, Middle East respiratory syndrome; VL, visceral leishmaniasis.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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