Volume 25, Number 12—December 2019
Synopsis
Global Epidemiology of Buruli Ulcer, 2010–2017, and Analysis of 2014 WHO Programmatic Targets
Table 2
Epidemiologic data on Buruli ulcer cases reported to the World Health Organization, 2010–2017*
Region and country | Total no. cases, 2011–2017 | 2017 data |
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No. suspected cases |
Incidence, cases/100,000 population | Patients age <15 y, % | Female patients, % | Lesion located on lower limb, % | Completed antimicrobial therapy, % | |||
2010 | 2017 | |||||||
AFRO region | ||||||||
Benin | 572 | 267 | 3,027 | 2.35 | 41 | 50.5 | 61† | 100† |
Cameroon | 287 | No data | 1,180 | No data | 31† | 49† | 74† | 99† |
Congo | 107 | No data | 207 | No data | No data | No data | No data | No data |
Côte d'Ivoire | 2,533 | 344 | 8,713 | 1.31 | 48 | 52 | 57† | 100† |
DRC | 136 | 91 | 1,535 | 1.80 | 33† | 44† | 72† | 100† |
Gabon | 65 | 45 | 402 | 2.12 | 40 | 49 | 77† | 84 |
Ghana | 1,048 | 538 | 4,828 | 1.91 | 13 | 48 | 83† | No data |
Guinea | 24 | 98 | 549 | 0.83 | 14† | No data | No data | No data |
Liberia | No data | 219 | 353 | 4.55 | 14 | 47 | No data | 57 |
Nigeria | 7 | 259 | 747 | 0.13 | 50 | 57 | 78† | 94 |
Sierra Leone | No data | No data | 28 | No data | No data | No data | No data | No data |
South Sudan | 4 | No data | 4 | No data | No data | No data | No data | No data |
Togo | 67 | 62 | 500 | 0.76 | 53 | 42 | 54† | 86† |
AFRO subtotal‡ |
4,850 |
1,923 |
22,073 |
31 |
50 |
71 |
70 |
|
WPRO region | ||||||||
Australia | 42 | 283 | 1,033 | 1.21 | 10 | 48 | 58 | 100† |
Japan | 9 | 6 | 52 | 0.0048 | 17 | 67 | 50† | 100 |
Papua New Guinea | 5 | 5 | 48 | 0.07 | 80 | 60 | ||
WPRO subtotal‡ |
56 |
294 |
1,133 |
11 |
49 |
58 |
100 |
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Global total | 4,906 | 2,217 | 23,196 | 26 | 50 | 69 | 74 |
*Data from Buruli ulcer–endemic countries that reported continuous data for most of the years assessed. Up-to-date country data on annual reported cases are available at http://apps.who.int/gho/data/node.main.A1631. AFRO, WHO African Region; DRC, Democratic Republic of the Congo; WPRO, WHO Western Pacific Region; WHO, World Health Organization.
†2016 data; 2017 data were not available.
‡Cases and total cases represent sums of countries per region. Programmatic indicators represented mean proportions weighted for case burden in the respective countries.