Table 1.

Rates of vaccine-preventable disease in Kuwait.

Disease
Pneumococcal disease	5/100,000 annually [11]
Influenza	10–20 per 100,000 population annually [12]
Tetanus∗	0 [13]
Hepatitis B	2–5% [14]
Herpes zoster	0.55% [15]
Human papilloma virus∗∗	2.3% [16]
Meningitis	0.5 per 100,000 population annually [17]

^∗There have been no reported cases of tetanus in Kuwait since 1990. ^∗∗In women with normal cervical cytology.