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. 2018 Sep 28;31:65. doi: 10.11604/pamj.2018.31.65.16309

Table 2.

Demographic and epidemiologic characteristic of confirmed measles cases by year-Kenya, 2003-2016

Characteristic Year
2003 No.(IR1) 2004 No.(IR) 2005 No.(IR) 2006No.(IR) 2007 No.(IR) 2008 No.(IR) 2009 No.(IR) 2010 No.(IR) 2011 No.(IR) 2012 No.(IR) 2013 No.(IR) 2014 No.(IR) 2015 No.(IR) 2016 No.(IR) Total(IR)
Confirmed measles2 113(4) 56(2) 139(4) 2042(62) 474(14) 65(2) 222(6) 110(3) 2608(65) 2380(58) 223(5) 375(9) 111(2) 125(3) 9043
Sex
Male 50(3) 28(2) 56(3) 1030(62) 240(14) 35(2) 111(6) 79(4) 1349(66) 1237(59) 108(5) 214(10) 58(1) 73(3) 4668(17)
Female 63(4) 28(2) 83(5) 972(59) 229(14) 30(2) 110(6) 29(1) 1252(62) 1142(52) 115(5) 161(7) 53(1) 48(2) 4315(16)
Missing 0 0 0 40 5 0 1 2 7 1 0 0 0 4 60(1)
Age group
< 1 year 8(7) 1(1) 19(15) 424(337) 79(61) 14(11) 14(11) 4(3) 227(177) 460(349) 68(50) 56(40) 3(2) 9(6) 1386(76)
1–4 years 45(12) 25(7) 53(14) 631(159) 101(25) 27(7) 77(16) 18(4) 782(157) 1854(364) 0 1(0.1) 14(3) 36(6) 3664(55)
5–14 years 47(5) 22(2) 37(4) 443(48) 107(11) 22(2) 103(10) 66(6) 892(80) 1 0 2(0.1) 6(0.1) 33(3) 1781(12)
15+ years 13(0.7) 6(0.3) 9(0.5) 474(26) 171(9) 2(0.1) 66(0.8) 15(0.7) 604(26) 0 0 244(10) 87(3) 35(1) 1677(6)
Missing 0 2 21 70 16 0 0 7 103 65 155 72 1 12 535
Vaccination status3
0 dose 6(5) 5(9) 63(45) 475(23) 183(39) 11(17) 16(7) 54(49) 950(36) 871(37) 81(36) 120(32) 30(27) 28(22) 2893(32)
≥ 1 dose 77(68) 43(77) 42(30) 408(20) 142(30) 33(51) 159(72) 35(32) 879(34) 775(33) 98(44) 255(68) 80(72) 43(34) 3069(34)
Unknown 30(27) 8(14) 34(25) 1159(57) 149(31) 21(32) 47(21) 21(19) 779(30) 734(31) 44(20) 0 1(1) 54(43) 3081(34)
Residence
Rural 59(3) 22(1) 0 167(7) 181(8) 5(0.1) 39(1) 0 1454(52) 2084(73) 193(7) 259(9) 97(2) 100(3) 4660(9)
Urban 24(24) 31(30) 3(3) 372(351) 20(18) 2(2) 3(2) 0 1153(886) 296(222) 26(19) 116(83) 10(7) 5(3) 2061(118)
Missing 30(27) 3(6) 136(98) 1503(74) 273(58) 58(89) 180(81) 110(100) 1 0 4(1) 0 4(4) 20(16) 2322(26)

[1] IR is Incidence Rate, calculated by dividing the number of confirmed cases by population estimate for the year and multiplied by 1,000,000

2

Confirmed cases include laboratory-confirmed, epidemiologically confirmed and clinical-compatible case

3

Vaccination status data on parentheses is percentage