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Volume 25, Number 1—January 2019
Research

Epidemiology of Imported Infectious Diseases, China, 2005–2016

Yali Wang1, Xuan Wang1, Xiaobo Liu1, Ruiqi Ren, Lei Zhou, Chao Li, Wenxiao Tu, Daxin Ni, Qun Li, Zijian Feng, and Yanping ZhangComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China (Y. Wang, X. Liu, R. Ren, L. Zhou, C. Li, W. Tu, D. Ni, Q. Li, Z. Feng, Y. Zhang); National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing (X. Liu); 302 Military Hospital of China, Beijing (X. Wang)

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Table 1

Imported infectious diseases in mainland China, 2005–2016*

Disease Indigenous cases Imported
cases Total cases Imported cases, % Main reporting provinces/cities Main location(s)
of acquisition
Malaria
Plasmodium vivax 149,675 10,506 160,181 6.6 Yunnan Asia (Myanmar)
P. falciparum 8,080 14,896 22,976 64.8 Yunnan, Guangxi Asia (Myanmar), Africa (Ghana)
Undetermined species 29,929 2,095 32,024 6.5 NA NA
Subtotal
 187,684
 27,497
 215,181
 8.1
 NA
 NA
Dengue fever 58,602 3,351 61,953 5.4 Yunnan Asia (Myanmar)
Influenza A(H1N1) 75,924 773 76,697 1.0 Beijing, Guangdong Asia, USA
Chikungunya 244 18 262 6.9 Guangdong, Zhejiang Angola, Philippines
Lyme disease 162 2 164 1.2 Beijing Germany
EHF 44,682 7 44,689 0.0 NA NA
Scrub typhus 68,841 7 68,848 0.0 Hubei Thailand
VL 1,317 14 1,331 1.1 Hubei, Sichuan Afghanistan, Spain
JE 5,656 17 5,673 0.3 NA NA
AFP 27,056 2 27,058 0.0 NA NA
Loiasis 0 11 11 100.0 Beijing, Shandong, Hubei Cameroon, Congo, Gabon
EHEC 4 3 7 42.9 Jiangsu Thailand
CCHF 0 1 1 100.0 Beijing Congo
Schistosomiasis 0 1 1 100.0 Beijing Nigeria
MERS 0 1 1 100.0 Guangdong South Korea
Yellow fever 0 11 11 100.0 Fujian Africa (Angola)
Zika virus
 0
 24
 24
 100.0
 Guangdong
 South America (Venezuela)
Total 470,172 31,740 501,911 6.3

*AFP, acute flaccid paralysis; CCHF, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever; EHEC, Escherichia coli O157:H7; EHF, epidemic hemorrhagic fever; JE, Japanese encephalitis; MERS, Middle East respiratory syndrome; NA, not applicable; VL, visceral leishmaniasis

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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