Volume 4, Number 4—December 1998
Perspective
Diphtheria in the Former Soviet Union: Reemergence of a Pandemic Disease
Charles R. Vitek
and Melinda Wharton
and Melinda Wharton
Table 1
Diphtheria incidence in the Newly Independent States (NIS) of the former Soviet Union, 1991—1996
| Country | Pop. (mil.) | Cases (per 100,000) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | ||
| Russia | 149.90 | 1,869 (1.25) | 3,897 (2.60) | 15,211 (10.15) | 39,582 (26.41) | 35,652 (23.78) | 13,604 (9.08) |
| Kazakstan | 17.46 | 30 (0.17) | 45 (0.26) | 82 (0.47) | 489 (2.80) | 1,105 (6.33) | 455 (2.61) |
| Kyrgyzstan | 4.7 | 10 (0.21) | 4 (0.09) | 6 (0.13) | 299 (6.36) | 693 (14.74) | 412 (8.77) |
| Tajikistan | 6.02 | 5 (0.08) | 14 (0.23) | 680 (11.30) | 1,912 (31.76) | 4,455 (74.00) | 1,464 (24.32) |
| Turkmenistan | 4.16 | 4 (0.10) | 22 (0.53) | 3 (0.07) | 60 (1.44) | 87 (2.09) | 80 (1.92) |
| Uzbekistan | 22.83 | 9 (0.04) | 29 (0.13) | 137 (0.60) | 224 (0.98) | 638 (2.79) | 160 (0.70) |
| Central Asia | 55.17 | 58 (0.11) | 114 (0.21) | 908 (1.65) | 2,984 (5.41) | 6,978 (12.65) | 2,571 (4.66) |
| Armenia | 3.74 | 0 (0.00) | 0 (0.00) | 1 (0.03) | 36 (0.96) | 29 (0.78) | 11 (0.29) |
| Azerbaijan | 7.46 | 36 (0.48) | 55 (0.74) | 141 (1.89) | 841 (11.27) | 883 (11.84) | 114 (1.53) |
| Georgia | 5.49 | 7 (0.13) | 3 (0.05) | 28 (0.51) | 294 (5.36) | 419 (7.63) | 346 (6.30) |
| Caucasus | 16.69 | 43 (0.26) | 58 (0.35) | 170 (1.02) | 1171 (7.02) | 1,331 (7.97) | 471 (2.82) |
| Ukraine | 52.47 | 1,103 (2.10) | 1,567 (2.99) | 2,987 (5.69) | 2,990 (5.70) | 5,280 (10.06) | 3,156 (6.01) |
| Moldova | 4.36 | 14 (0.32) | 22 (0.50) | 35 (0.80) | 376 (8.62) | 418 (9.59) | 97 (2.22) |
| Belarus | 10.33 | 26 (0.25) | 66 (0.64) | 120 (1.16) | 230 (2.23) | 322 (3.12) | 179 (1.73) |
| Western NIS | 67.16 | 1,143 (1.70) | 1,655 (2.46) | 3,142 (4.68) | 3,596 (5.35) | 6,020 (8.96) | 3,432 (5.11) |
| Estonia | 1.57 | 7 (0.45) | 3 (0.19) | 11 (0.70) | 7 (0.45) | 19 (1.21) | 14 (0.89) |
| Latvia | 2.65 | 5 (0.19) | 8 (0.30) | 12 (0.45) | 250 (9.43) | 369 (13.92) | 112 (4.23) |
| Lithuania | 3.77 | 1 (0.03) | 9 (0.24) | 8 (0.21) | 38 (1.01) | 43 (1.14) | 11 (0.29) |
| Baltics | 7.99 | 13 (0.16) | 20 (0.25) | 31 (0.39) | 295 (3.69) | 431 (5.39) | 137 (1.71) |
| All NIS | 296.91 | 3,126 (1.05) | 5,744 (1.93) | 19,462 (6.55) | 47,628 (16.04) | 50,412 (16.98) | 20,215 (6.81) |
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