Volume 4, Number 2—June 1998
Synopsis
Haemophilus influenzae Invasive Disease in the United States, 1994–1995: Near Disappearance of a Vaccine-Preventable Childhood Disease
Table 3
Number of cases and average annual incidence rates of Hi and Hib invasive disease and Hi invasive disease of unknown serotype, by race and ethnicity,a United States, 1994 – 1995
| Children aged 0-4 year |
Persons aged >5 years |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Hi |
Hib |
Hi: unknown
serotypes |
All Hi |
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| Race/ethnicity | No.b | Incidencec | No.b | Incidencec | No.b | Incidencec | No.b | Incidencec | |
| Non-Hispanic | |||||||||
| White | 338 | 1.34 | 102 | 0.40 | 150 | 0.59 | 1,269 | 0.35 | |
| Black | 122 | 2.08 | 32 | 0.55 | 52 | 0.89 | 258 | 0.45 | |
| American Indian | 18 | 5.10 | 10 | 2.83 | 3 | 0.84 | 12 | 0.37 | |
| Asian or Pacific Islander | 13 | 0.86 | 3 | 0.20 | 6 | 0.40 | 21 | 0.13 | |
| Hispanic | 94 | 1.49 | 7 | 0.11 | 31 | 0.49 | 70 | 0.15 | |
aDoes not include 84 (13%) of children aged < 4 years, and 310 (16%) of persons aged > 5 years for whom race and ethnicity data were missing.
bNumber of cases over the 2-year period.
cPer 100,000 population.
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