Table 1.

Baseline characteristics of cases and controls from the anthrax outbreak in 2014

Characteristic	Categories	Controls	Cases	p-value (χ2)
Sex	Female	11 (29.7)	10 (27.0)	0.797
	Male	26 (70.3)	27 (73.0)
Median Age (IQR)		28 (25–46)	34 (22–42)	0.998b
Marital Status	Has partner	15 (40.5)	22 (59.5)	0.104
	No partner	22 (59.5)	15 (40.5)
Education	Primary and below	15 (40.5)	12 (32.4)	0.469
	Secondary and above	22 (59.5)	25 (67.6)
Employment	Employed	5 (13.5)	9 (24.3)	0.343
	Peasant farmer	10 (27.0)	6 (16.2)
	Unemployed	22 (59.5)	22 (59.5)
Religion	a Traditional churches	18 (48.7)	19 (5.4)	0.330
	Apostolic	13 (38.1)	8 (21.6)
	Others	6 (16.2)	10 (27.0)

^a Traditional churches – Anglican, Methodist, Roman Catholic and Reformed Church of Zimbabwe

^bWilcoxon rank-sum, IQR Interquartile range