Table 1. Antifungal drug treatments, hospitalizations, and deaths resulting from histoplasmosis outbreaks, by decade, United States, 1938–2013*.
| Decade | No. (%) patients |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Treated | Hospitalized | Died | |
| 1938–1949 |
0 |
57 (64.8) |
1 (1.7) |
| 1950–1959 |
7 (21.9) |
28 (37.3) |
4 (3.3) |
| 1960–1969 |
7 (6.5) |
24 (48.0) |
5 (2.9) |
| 1970–1979 |
50 (5.5) |
17 (3.7) |
15 (1.8) |
| 1980–1989 |
10 (4.5) |
72 (27.5) |
0 (0.0) |
| 1990–1999 | 14 (20.6) | 38 (22.1) | 0 (0.0) |
| 2000–2013 |
32 (6.8) |
29 (4.1) |
0 (0.0) |
| Total | 120 (6.7) | 265 (14.7) | 25 (1.1) |
*Percentages are of reported cases. Number and percent of cases from outbreaks were included when information was available.