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Table 2.

Epidemiology of ciguatera in the coastal cities of southern China and Hong Kong.

	Southern China 1994–2008	Hong Kong [13] 1989–2008
Incidence/million people (year)	1.1 (2005/6) ^a to 7.5 (2004) ^a	3.3 to 64.9 (median 10.2)
	>48.7 (2004) ^b	1st peak–64.9 (1998)
	>129.9 (2004) ^c	2nd peak–35.5 (2004)
Large outbreaks (>100–200 subjects)	3	0
Fish species causing large outbreaks	Tiger grouper	–
Important fish species ^d	Tiger grouper, humphead wrasse, areolated coral grouper	Snappers (until 1996)
Important fish species ^d	Tiger grouper, humphead wrasse, areolated coral grouper	Groupers (from 1997) ^d

Based on city-wide figures in ^a Shenzhen and hospital-based case series in ^b Foshan and ^c Zhongshan; ^d Groupers (tiger grouper, leopard coral grouper, lyretail grouper, flowery grouper, spotted coral grouper), moray eel, two-spot red snapper and humphead wrasse, etc. were commonly involved [13,38].