Table 3. Case rates for children in industrialized countries with malaria imported from Africa, 1992–2002*.
| Country of origin† | Region of case acquisition |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Western Africa |
Eastern Africa |
Central Africa |
Southern Africa |
All African regions |
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| No. | Rate (95% CI) | No. | Rate (95% CI) | No. | Rate (95% CI) | No. | Rate (95% CI) | No. | Rate (95% CI) | |||||
| Denmark | 46 | 47.7 (34.9–63.6) | 87 | 54.7 (43.9–67.5) | 10 | 434.8 (208.5–799.6) | 1 | 0.8 (0.02–4.5) | 144 | 37.8 (31.9–44.5) | ||||
| France | 3,777 | 110.6 (107.1–114.2) | 1,339 | 25.7 (24.4–27.1) | 1,400 | 216.3 (205.1–228.0) | 1 | 0.1 (0.001–0.7) | 6,517 | 65.0 (63.4–66.6) | ||||
| Germany‡ | 344 | 38.3 (34.3–42.5) | 129 | 4.6 (3.8–5.4) | 76 | 68.0 (53.6–85.2) | 5 | 0.2 (0.07–0.5) | 554 | 8.9 (8.2–9.7) | ||||
| Italy§ | 323 | 40.2 (35.9–44.8) | 24 | 2.0 (1.3–2.9) | 31 | 39.5 (26.8–56.1) | 1 | 0.3 (0.006–1.4) | 379 | 15.2 (13.7–16.8) | ||||
| Japan | 8 | 7.0 (3.0–13.8) | 3 | 1.1 (0.2–3.1) | 4 | 102.6 (27.9–262.6) | 1 | 0.5 (0.01–2.6) | 16 | 2.6 (1.5–4.2) | ||||
| Netherlands | 172 | 35.3 (30.2–41.0) | 32 | 0.6 (0.4 – 0.9) | 51 | 103.9 (77.3–136.6) | 1 | 0.1 (0.0–0.7) | 256 | 13.9 (12.2–15.7) | ||||
| Sweden¶ | 55 | 51.1 (38.5–66.5) | 48 | 9.0 (6.6–11.9) | 21 | 244.2 (151.2–373.3) | 0 | 0.0 (0.0–1.7) | 124 | 14.9 (12.4–17.8) | ||||
| Switzerland | 97 | 54.9 (44.5–67.0) | 37 | 4.4 (3.1–6.1) | 85 | 121.6 (97.2–150.4) | 2 | 0.5 (0.06–1.9) | 221 | 15.0 (13.1–17.1) | ||||
| United Kingdom | 1,749 | 177.3 (169.0–185.8) | 406 | 9.7 (8.8–10.7) | 91 | 82.3 (66.8–101.1) | 14 | 0.4 (0.2–0.7) | 2,260 | 26.3 (25.2–27.4) | ||||
| United States |
1,181 |
160.6
(151.6–170.1) |
|
191 |
9.9
(8.5–11.4) |
|
91 |
62.6
(50.4–76.8) |
|
8 |
0.5
(0.2–1.0) |
|
1471 |
33.7
(32.0–35.5) |
| Total | 7,752 | 99.1 (96.9–101.3) | 2,296 | 13.0 (12.5–13.5) | 1,860 | 151.6 (144.8–158.6) | 34 | 0.3 (0.2–0.5) | 11,942 | 32.4 (31.8–33.0) | ||||
*Rates per 10,000 arrivals of children <18 years of age, except in the United Kingdom, where data were available only for children <17 years of age. Regions are classified according to United Nations World Tourist Organization (18). Denominators include only countries for which data were available. No data were available for arrivals to Gabon and Burundi for any country. For some African countries data are available for only some sources, e.g., arrivals to Sierra Leone available for only Denmark, United Kingdom; arrivals to Mozambique available for only United Kingdom, United States (details available on request). Western Africa comprises Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Côte d’Ivoire, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, The Gambia, and Togo; Eastern Africa comprises Burundi, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Reunion, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe; Central Africa comprises Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire), Equatorial Guinea, Gabon; Sao Tome et Principe; and Southern Africa comprises Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, and Swaziland. †No data available from Australia. ‡Data from 1993–2002 only. §Data from 1998–2002 only. ¶Data from 1997–2002 only.