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Volume 25, Number 8—August 2019
Dispatch

Underreporting of Fatal Congenital Zika Syndrome, Mexico, 2016–2017

Victor M. CardenasComments to Author , Angel Jose Paternina-Caicedo, and Ernesto Benito Salvatierra
Author affiliations: University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA (V.M. Cardenas); Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia (A.J. Paternina-Caicedo); Unidad San Cristóbal, Chiapas, Mexico (E.B. Salvatierra)

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Table 1

Infant deaths from microcephaly and death rates per 100,000 live births, by year, Mexico, 1998–2018

Year No. infant deaths from microcephaly* Live births Rate of infant deaths from microcephaly/100,000 live births
1998 26 2,668,428 0.97
1999 24 2,769,089 0.87
2000 21 2,798,339 0.75
2001 27 2,767,610 0.98
2002 23 2,699,084 0.85
2003 23 2,655,894 0.87
2004 27 2,625,056 1.03
2005 31 2,567,906 1.21
2006 29 2,505,939 1.16
2007 26 2,655,083 0.98
2008 22 2,636,110 0.83
2009 22 2,577,214 0.85
2010 21 2,643,908 0.79
2011 27 2,586,287 1.04
2012 17 2,498,880 0.68
2013 18 2,478,889 0.73
2014 13 2,463,420 0.53
2015 17 2,353,596 0.72
2016 26 2,293,708 1.13
2017 27 2,234,039 1.21

*International Classification of Disease, 10th Revision, code Q02x.

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