Table 3.

annual incidence rates of acute infections, in the Yearly Contact Group, per 1000 children, from 1998–2002. (* serious infections)

	0 – 4 years	5 – 9 year	10 – 14 years	Total
A03 fever	34.9	8.2	2.8	14.0
A71 measles	0.68	0.19	0.13	0.28
A72 chicken pocks	59.7	13.1	1.3	22.4
A74 rubella	0.30	0.63	0.11	0.33
A75 mononucleosis infectiosa	0.68	1.65	2.29	1.60
A76 other viral infection with exanthema	4.5	1.3	0.4	1.9
A77 other viral infection	21.2	11.6	9.7	13.7
A78 other infection nos	8.6	5.1	1.9	4.9
D70 gastro-intestinal infection	10.6	3.1	2.6	5.1
D71 mumps	0.6	0.3	0.5	0.5
D73 supposed infectious gastro-enteritis	130.9	92.1	84.2	100.5
H71 otitis media acuta	226.4	108.8	39.0	117.7
L70 infection of the limbs*	0.45	0.38	0.42	0.42
N71 meningitis/encephalitis + sepsis*	1.4	1.1	0.06	0.7
R71 whooping-cough	0.23	0.00	0.00	0.07
R72 streptococcal angina	0.38	0.44	0.36	0.39
R74 acute infection of the upper respiratory tract	666.5	339.4	292.9	417.8
R75 acute/chronic sinusitis	8.3	18.3	23.1	17.2
R76 acute tonsillitis	87.4	81.7	47.0	70.7
R77 acute laryngitis/tracheitis	84.5	49.7	35.3	54.6
R78 acute bronchitis///bronchiolitis	201.0	89.0	48.5	106.9
R80 influenza (ex pneumonia)	123.7	113.1	118.5	118.1
R81 pneumonia *	18.1	9.9	4.3	10.2
R83 other infection of the respiratory tract	26.7	13.1	10.2	16.0
U70 pyelonephritis/pyelitis *	1.3	0.6	0.4	0.7
U71 acute cystitis	12.8	10.3	6.7	9.7