Volume 17, Number 12—December 2011
CME ACTIVITY - Synopsis
Worldwide Occurrence and Impact of Human Trichinellosis, 1986–2009
K.rwin Murrell
and Edoardo Pozio
and Edoardo Pozio
Table 4
Frequency of major clinical signs associated with trichinellosis among World Health Organization regions, 1986–2009*
| Region | Total no. cases† | Clinical sign, no. cases |
Deaths | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diarrhea | Myalgia | Fever | Facial and/or eyelid edema | Headache | Eosinophilia | |||
| African Region | 28 | 28 | 8 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 0 |
| Region of the Americas | 1,229 | 400 | 969 | 821 | 790 | 410 | 606 | 10 |
| Eastern Mediterranean Region | 45 | 43 | 42 | 41 | Not reported | 30 | 0 | 4 |
| European Region | 3,118 | 798 | 1,971 | 1,387 | 1,617 | 351 | 1,850 | 24 |
| South-East Asian Region | 210 | 82 | 206 | 103 | 102 | 71 | 97 | 1 |
| Western Pacific Region | 747 | 79 | 409 | 474 | 429 | 104 | 180 | 8 |
| Total no. (%) | 5,377 (100.0) | 1,430 (27.0) | 3,605 (67.0) | 2,837 (53.0) | 2,946 (55.0) | 972 (18.0) | 2,739 (51.0) | 35 (1.0) |
*Report references are available in the Technical Appendix, section C.
†Cases included in this table were selected from all reports on the basis of detailed descriptions of clinical data in the reports.
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