Volume 17, Number 8—August 2011
Dispatch
Poliomyelitis Outbreak,Pointe-Noire, Republic of the Congo, September 2010–February 2011
Arnaud Le Menach
, Augusto E. Llosa, Isabelle Mouniaman-Nara, Felix Kouassi, Joseph Ngala, Naomi Boxall, Klaudia Porten, and Rebecca F. Grais
, Augusto E. Llosa, Isabelle Mouniaman-Nara, Felix Kouassi, Joseph Ngala, Naomi Boxall, Klaudia Porten, and Rebecca F. Grais
Table 1
Persons vaccinated against poliomyelitis (routine vaccination), by age and gender, Mbota, Pointe-Noire, Republic of the Congo, December 2010
| Age, y, and gender | No. (%) persons* |
Total no. persons | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vaccinated, card | Vaccinated, recall | Total vaccinated | Nonvaccinated | Unknown | ||
| <5 | ||||||
| M | 43 (35.5) | 67 (55.4) | 110 (90.9) | 5 (4.1) | 6 (5) | 121 |
| F | 54 (36.2) | 72 (48.3) | 126 (84.5) | 9 (6) | 14 (9.4) | 149 |
| Total |
97 (35.9) |
139 (51.5) |
236 (87.4) |
14 (5.2) |
20 (7.4) |
270 |
| 5–9 | ||||||
| M | 26 (25.5) | 53 (52) | 79 (77.5) | 10 (9.8) | 13 (12.8) | 102 |
| F | 23 (20.9) | 66 (60) | 89 (80.9) | 7 (6.4) | 14 (12.7) | 110 |
| Total |
49 (23.1) |
119 (56.1) |
168 (79.2) |
17 (8) |
27 (12.7) |
212 |
| 10–14 | ||||||
| M | 7(7.2) | 62 (63.9) | 69 (71.1) | 9 (9.3) | 19 (19.6) | 97 |
| F | 16 (16) | 51 (51) | 67 (67) | 7 (7) | 26 (26) | 100 |
| Total |
23 (11.7) |
113 (57.4) |
136 (69.1) |
16 (8.1) |
45 (22.8) |
197 |
| 15–19 | ||||||
| M | 4 (4.4) | 39 (42.4) | 43 (46.8) | 9 (9.8) | 40 (43.5) | 92 |
| F | 8 (7.3) | 49 (45) | 57 (52.3) | 12 (11) | 40 (36.7) | 109 |
| Total |
12 (6) |
88 (43.8) |
100 (49.8) |
21 (10.4) |
80 (39.8) |
201 |
| 20–24 | ||||||
| M | 2 (3) | 25 (37.3) | 27 (40.3) | 7 (10.5) | 33 (49.3) | 67 |
| F | 4 (3.2) | 61 (48) | 65 (51.2) | 14 (11) | 48 (37.8) | 127 |
| Total |
6 (3.1) |
86 (44.3) |
92 (47.4) |
21 (10.8) |
81 (41.8) |
194 |
| 25–29 | ||||||
| M | 2 (2.3) | 37 (43) | 39 (45.3) | 12 (14) | 35 (40.7) | 86 |
| F | 11 (10.4) | 50 (47.2) | 61 (57.6) | 15 (14.2) | 30 (28.3) | 106 |
| Total |
13 (6.6) |
87 (45.3) |
100 (51.9) |
27 (14.1) |
65 (33.9) |
192 |
| >29 | ||||||
| M | 4 (1.5) | 80 (29.2) | 84 (30.7) | 33 (12) | 157 (57.3) | 274 |
| F | 11 (4.2) | 84 (32.3) | 95 (36.5) | 30 (11.5) | 135 (51.9) | 260 |
| Total |
15 (2.8) |
164 (30.7) |
179 (33.5) |
63 (11.8) |
292 (54.7) |
534 |
| Totals | ||||||
| M | 88 (10.5) | 363 (43.3) | 451 (53.8) | 85 (10.1) | 303 (36.1) | 839 |
| F | 127 (13.2) | 433 (45.1) | 560 (58.3) | 94 (9.8) | 307 (32) | 961 |
| Total | 215 (11.9) | 796 (44.2) | 1,011 (56.1) | 179 (10) | 610 (33.9) | 1,800 |
*Card, vaccination documented by card; recall, person remembers received vaccination; total, card + recall.
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