Table 1.

Malaria cases and deaths by age and sex, Naxalbari, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India, April 2005 - March 2006^a

Characteristics		Population	Cases	Deaths	Case fatality ratio (%)	Attack rate per 1,000
Age	0 - 4	15,216	509	0	0	33
	5 - 14	36,084	1,884	8	0.4	52
	15 - 29	42,605	2,689	3	0.1	63
	30 - 44	20,868	1,412	1	0.07	68
	45 - 59	22,317	568	3	0.5	25
	60+	7,825	241	2	0.8	31
Sex	Male	75,831	3,979	9	0.2	52
	Female	69,084	3,324	8	0.2	48
Total		144,915	7,303	17	0.2	50

^a Includes cases detected through active and passive case detection (See text). For a break down of the two case detection strategies, see Figure 1