Table 2. Demographic characteristics of persons with imported cases of infectious disease in mainland China, 2005–2016*.
| Disease |
Sex, no. (%) | Mean age, y (range) |
Native country, no. (%) |
|
Occupation, no. (%) | Total |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M |
F |
China |
Other |
Migrant worker |
Other |
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| Malaria | 25,819 (93.9) | 1,678 (6.1) | 39 (1–83) | 26,048 (94.7) | 1,449 (5.3) | 17,929 (65.2) | 9,568 (34.8) | 27,497 | |
| Dengue fever | 2,138 (63.8) | 1,213 (36.2) | 32 (1–86) | 2,403 (71.7) | 948 (28.3) | 943 (28.1) | 2,408 (71.9) | 3,351 | |
| Influenza A(H1N1) | 758 (98.1) | 15 (1.9) | 20 (0.7–75) | 731 (94.6) | 42 (5.4) | 15 (1.9) | 758 (98.1) | 773 | |
| Chikungunya | 15 (83.3) | 3 (16.7) | 25 (20–47) | 15 (83.3) | 3 (16.7) | 4 (22.2) | 14 (77.8) | 18 | |
| Lyme disease | 1 | 1 | NA | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
| Scrub typhus | 3 (42.9) | 4 (57.1) | 23 (3–42) | 2 (28.6) | 5 (71.4) | 0 | 7 | 7 | |
| VL | 13 (92.9) | 1 (7.1) | 34 (25–49) | 14 (100.0) | 0 (0.0) | 13 (92.9) | 1 (7.1) | 14 | |
| JE | 12 (70.6) | 5 (29.4) | 8 (1–54) | 5 (29.4) | 12 (70.6) | 0 | 17 | 17 | |
| EHF | 7 (100.0) | 0 | 48 (25–71) | 6 (85.7) | 1 (14.3) | 5 (71.4) | 2 (28.6) | 7 | |
| AFP | 0 | 2 | NA | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
| Loiasis | 10 (90.9) | 1 (9.1) | 37 (22–60) | 11 (100.0) | 0 (0.0) | 8 (72.7) | 3 (27.3) | 11 | |
| EHEC | 3 | 0 | 63 (43–74) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | |
| CCHF | 1 | 0 | 35 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Schistosomiasis | 1 | 0 | 28 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| MERS | 1 | 0 | 43 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Yellow fever | 8 (72.7) | 3 (27.3) | 42 (18–53) | 11 (100.0) | 0 (0.0) | 8 (72.7) | 3 (27.3) | 11 | |
| Zika virus |
15 (62.5) |
9 (37.5) |
30 (5–55) |
16 (66.7) |
8 (33.3) |
|
7 (29.2) |
17 (70.8) |
24 |
| Total | 28,805 (90.8) | 2,935 (9.2) | NA | 29,270 (92.2) | 2,470 (7.8) | 18,932 (59.6) | 12,808 (40.4) | 31,740 | |
*AFP, acute flaccid paralysis; CCHF, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever; EHEC, Escherichia coli O157:H7; EHF, epidemic hemorrhagic fever; JE, Japanese encephalitis; MERS, Middle East respiratory syndrome; NA, not applicable; VL, visceral leishmaniasis