Table 1 Acute viral hepatitis cases by type of viral hepatitis and year, Egypt, January 2014–June 2017
Total 2014–2017 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | Change between 2014 and 2017 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
RR | 95% CI | |||||||||||
No. of suspected AVH cases | 9321 | 3069 | 2472 | 2859 | 921 | NA | NA | |||||
No. of confirmed cases (% from suspected) | 8362 (89.7%) | 2714 (88.4%) | 2210 (89.4%) | 2586 (90.5%) | 852 (92.5%) | 1.6 | 1.2–2.1 | |||||
Type of Hepatitis | No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | ||
HAV | 7806 | 93.4 | 2505 | 92.3 | 2049 | 92.7 | 2434 | 94.1 | 818 | 96.0 | 1.8 | 1.4–2.2 |
HCV | 252 | 3.0 | 106 | 3.9 | 73 | 3.3 | 60 | 2.3 | 13 | 1.5 | 0.4 | 0.2–0.7 |
HBV | 238 | 2.8 | 85 | 3.2 | 70 | 3.2 | 67 | 2.6 | 16 | 1.9 | 0.6 | 0.4–1.1 |
* HDV co-infection | 8 | 3.4 | 5 | 2.1 | 2 | 0.8 | 1 | 0.4 | 0 | 0.0 | NA | NA |
HAV and HBV mixed infection | 35 | 0.4 | 12 | 0.4 | 11 | 0.5 | 12 | 0.5 | 0 | 0.0 | NA | NA |
HEV | 31 | 0.4 | 6 | 0.2 | 7 | 0.3 | 13 | 0.5 | 5 | 0.6 | 2.8 | 0.8–9.1 |