Reportable Diseases in Kansas, 1996 Summary -- Malaria

Kansas Department of Health and Environment

Bureau of Surveillance
& Epidemiology

Malaria
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Number of cases - 7

Cases in 1995 - 4

Kansas rate - 0.3 per 100,000

U.S. rate (1995) - 0.6 per 100,000

Age of case-patients

Median - 35 years

Range - <1 to 52 years

Cases by sex

Female - 2

Male - 5

Country of recent travel

Honduras: 1

India: 2

New Guinea: 1

Nigeria: 2

U.S. citizen

Yes: 3

No: 4

Malaria species

P. vivax: 4

Falciparum: 3

Prophylaxis

Primaquine: 1

Mefloquine: 1

Comment: One of the cases reported in Kansas
in 1996 was congenital malaria.