Table 4. Frequency of major clinical signs associated with trichinellosis among World Health Organization regions, 1986–2009*.

Region	Total no. cases†	Clinical sign, no. cases						Deaths
		Diarrhea	Myalgia	Fever	Facial and/or eyelid edema	Headache	Eosinophilia
African Region	28	28	8	11	8	6	6	0
Region of the Americas	1,229	400	969	821	790	410	606	10
Eastern Mediterranean Region	45	43	42	41	Not reported	30	0	4
European Region	3,118	798	1,971	1,387	1,617	351	1,850	24
South-East Asian Region	210	82	206	103	102	71	97	1
Western Pacific Region	747	79	409	474	429	104	180	8
Total no. (%)	5,377 (100.0)	1,430 (27.0)	3,605 (67.0)	2,837 (53.0)	2,946 (55.0)	972 (18.0)	2,739 (51.0)	35 (1.0)

*Report references are available in the Technical Appendix, section C.
†Cases included in this table were selected from all reports on the basis of detailed descriptions of clinical data in the reports.