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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Aug 31.
Published in final edited form as: East Mediterr Health J. 2010 Jun;16(6):595–601.

Table 2.

Fever prevalence in 3 rural communities in Gebiley, 2008

Date/fever category Xuunshaley Badahabo Ceel Bardaale Total

No. % 95% CI No. % 95% CI No. % 95% CI No. % 95% CI
March
 14-day fever
prevalence
32/247 13.0 9.03–17.79 9/185 4.9 2.25–9.03 16/746 2.1 1.23–3.46 57/1178 4.8 3.68–6.22
 Day of interview reported fever 9/247 3.6 1.67–6.80 2/185 1.1 0.13–3.85 4/746 0.5 0.15–1.37 15/1178 1.3 0.71–2.09
 Resolved fevers 23/32 71.9 53.25–86.25 7/9 77.8 40.00–9719 12/16 75.0 47.62–92.73 42/57 73.7 60.34–84.46
August
 14-day fever
prevalence
0/271 0 2/160 1.3 0.15–4.44 5/697 0.7 0.23–1.67 7/1128 0.6 0.25–1.27
 Day of interview reported fever 0/271 0 1/160 0.6 0.02–3.43 0/697 0.0 1/1128 0.09 0.00–0.49
 Resolved fevers - 1/2 50.00 1.26–98.74 5/5 100.0 47.82–100 6/7 85.7 42.13–99.64

Overall total reported fevers (n = 64)

CI = confidence interval.