Table 5.

Clinical signs and symptoms for febrile cases, Dengue, Venezuelan equine encephalitis, Oropouche and Mayaro cases in Iquitos, Peru, 1993–1999

Signs/Symptoms	Febrile cases		Dengue cases		VEE cases		Oropouche cases		Mayaro cases
	(N = 6,607)		(N = 967)		(N = 164)		(N = 68)		(N = 29)
	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%
Fever	6,438	97.4	947	98.3	162	98.8	66	98.5	28	96.6
Headache	6,392	96.7	945	97.7	160	97.6	63	94.0	29	10.0
Eyes pain	5,357	81.1	818	84.6*	137	83.5	46	68.7	24	82.8
Body pain	6,014	91.0	896	92.7	155	94.5	59	88.1	27	93.1
Arthralgia	5,635	85.3	859	89.0*	145	88.4	56	83.6	26	89.7
Rash	1,078	16.3	244	25.3†	15	9.2	10	14.9	11	37.9†
Nausea/vomiting	3,406	51.6	535	55.3*	98	59.8*	35	52.2	14	48.3
Diarrhea	1,590	24.1	213	22.1	37	22.6	18	26.9	2	6.9
Chills	5,803	87.8	880	91.2*	140	85.4	61	91.0	22	75.9
Cough	2,582	39.1	303	31.4	45	27.4	16	23.9*	13	44.8
Nasal congestion	1,353	20.5	146	15.2	16	9.8	10	14.9	4	13.8
Sore throat	1,564	23.7	185	19.1	27	16.5	18	26.9	6	20.7

Denominators total varied due to questionnaire nonresponse.

^*P < 0.05.

^†P < 0.001.