Table 1.

Age-adjusted incidence rates of scrub typhus by gender on the main island of Taiwan, from 2000-2010

	Year
Gender	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010
male*	1.05	1.14	1.03	1.10	1.13	1.55	1.18	1.72	1.70	1.25	1.35
female*	0.61	0.61	0.64	0.71	0.84	1.11	0.81	0.88	0.74	0.66	0.85
male/female ratio	1.72	1.88	1.60	1.54	1.35	1.39	1.46	1.96	2.29	1.90	1.59

^*indicates incidence rates per 100,000 people