Volume 28, Number 6—June 2022
Research
Effect of Recombinant Vesicular Stomatitis Virus–Zaire Ebola Virus Vaccination on Ebola Virus Disease Illness and Death, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Table 2
Frequency of symptoms reported by vaccinated and unvaccinated Ebola virus disease‒confirmed patients, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Symptom |
Not vaccinated, n = 248, no. (%) |
Vaccinated, n = 137, no. (%) |
p value* |
Asthenia† | 214 (86.6) | 102 (74.5) | 0.004 |
Anorexia | 204 (82.3) | 80 (58.4) | <0.001 |
Fever | 193 (77.8) | 99 (72.3) | 0.273 |
Headache† | 156 (63.2) | 90 (65.7) | 0.700 |
Abdominal pain | 152 (61.3) | 56 (40.9) | <0.001 |
Nausea | 140 (56.5) | 50 (36.5) | <0.001 |
Conjunctivitis† | 138 (55.9) | 49 (35.8) | <0.001 |
Diarrhea† | 137 (55.5) | 45 (32.8) | <0.001 |
Arthralgia | 134 (54.0) | 74 (54.0) | 1.000 |
Myalgia | 128 (51.6) | 54 (39.4) | 0.029 |
Chest pain† | 89 (36.0) | 32 (23.4) | 0.014 |
Cough† | 75 (30.4) | 36 (26.3) | 0.466 |
Bleeding‡ | 67 (27.1) | 14 (10.3) | <0.001 |
Dysphagia | 61 (24.6) | 17 (12.4) | 0.007 |
Sore throat† | 52 (21.1) | 17 (12.4) | 0.048 |
Dyspnea† | 47 (19.0) | 13 (9.5) | 0.020 |
Coma‡ | 16 (6.5) | 2 (1.5) | 0.050 |
Confusion‡ | 14 (5.7) | 2 (1.5) | 0.090 |
Rash‡ | 14 (5.7) | 5 (3.7) | 0.540 |
Hiccup‡ | 14 (5.7) | 3 (2.2) | 0.188 |
Jaundice† | 12 (4.9) | 2 (1.5) | 0.156 |
Photophobia† | 5 (2.0) | 1 (0.7) | 0.588 |
*Boldface indicates a significant difference (p<0.05). †One patient had missing data for this symptom. ‡Two patients had missing data for this symptom.
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