Human African trypanosomiasis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: disease distribution and risk

Table 4 T. b. gambiense Sleeping Sickness in the Provinces of DRC: new cases reported between 2000 and 2012

Province		2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	Total
Bandundu (Nord and Sud)		5,586	7,179	6,261	5,367	4,604	4,812	3,986	3,826	3,916	4,456	2,923	2,502	3,167	58,585
	Bandundu Nord	3,138	3,989	3,630	2,568	2,540	2,746	1,926	1,677	2,044	2,061	1,409	1,433	2,047	31,208
	Bandundu Sud	2,448	3,190	2,631	2,799	2,064	2,066	2,060	2,149	1,872	2,395	1,514	1,069	1,120	27,377
Bas-Congo		792	719	739	517	266	201	172	110	196	195	164	104	106	4,281
Equateur (Nord and Sud)		6,812	5,096	2,594	1,700	1,320	902	691	657	552	425	308	321	197	21,575
	Equateur Nord	6,673	4,990	2,436	1,597	1,250	824	572	532	418	270	184	219	107	20,072
	Equateur Sud	139	106	158	103	70	78	119	125	134	155	124	102	90	1,503
Kasaï (Occidental and Oriental)		2,811	2,905	3,173	2,606	2,720	2,766	2,115	1,896	1,431	1,376	967	1,054	872	26,692
	Kasaï-Occidental	-	-	-	-	-	618	515	575	357	386	270	356	171	-
	Kasaï-Oriental	-	-	-	-	-	2,148	1,600	1,321	1,074	990	697	698	701	-
Katanga and Maniema		323	709	589	728	667	391	355	368	218	137	122	115	218	4,940
	Katanga	-	-	-	-	-	108	80	99	0	66	52	62	91	-
	Maniema	323	-	-	-	-	283	275	269	218	71	70	53	127	-
Kinshasa		627	685	459	286	331	256	228	399	238	198	153	143	134	4,137
Province Orientale		0	5	0	251	431	920	463	897	767	391	986	1,351	1,273	7,735
Sud-Kivu		0	2	1	4	0	1	3	2	0	0	1	0	1	15
Total		16,951	17,300	13,816	11,459	10,339	10,249	8,013	8,155	7,318	7,178	5,624	5,590	5,968	127,960

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