Table 3. Positive Predictive Value (PPV) for bird outbreaks predicting the occurrence of a human case of H5N1 HPAI in the same governorate within the next 14 days.
Time Period | # Bird Outbreaks | # with Human Case within 14 days | Positive Predictive Value |
9/1/2005–8/31/2006 | 616 | 85 | 13.8 |
9/1/2006–8/31/2007 | 270 | 14 | 5.2 |
9/1/2007–8/31/2008 | 166 | 5 | 3.0 |
9/1/2008–8/31/2009 | 134 | 21 | 15.7 |
9/1/2009–8/31/2010 | 398 | 61 | 15.3 |
9/1/2010–8/31/2011 | 453 | 70 | 15.5 |
Total | 2037 | 256 | 12.6 |