Table 1. Attack rate by sex and age during a gastrointestinal anthrax outbreak: Isingiro, Uganda, August 2017.
Characteristics | Population | Cases | Attack rate / 1000 |
---|---|---|---|
Sex | |||
Male | 237,549 | 29 | 0.12 |
Female | 254,568 | 32 | 0.13 |
Age (years) | |||
0–5 | 114,093 | 7 | 0.06 |
6–12 | 104,023 | 6 | 0.06 |
13–16 | 48,012 | 5 | 0.10 |
17–35 | 145,438 | 20 | 0.14 |
36–64 | 67,365 | 18 | 0.27 |
>65 | 13,185 | 5 | 0.38 |