A General Comment on Table 1
Any interpretation of the data presented in Table 1 of this report should be undertaken
with the following in mind:
- There is no unusual epidemiologic situation as regards malaria in the subregion. Guyana
has only recently recommenced its weekly reporting of communicable diseases. The 1997
database would therefore not have contained any malaria reports from Guyana.
- ARIs among under fives are not under surveillance in four CMCs.
- Only five CMCs are currently reporting data on genital syndromes.
- Data on gastroenteritis from Trinidad and Tobago is not provided in an age-categorized
format, and have therefore been excluded from the age-specific sub-regional totals.
However, 12,158 cases of gastroenteritis have been cumulatively reported from that country
during the first 9 months of 1998.
- To date, AIDS Surveillance Reports for 1998 have been received from Trinidad &
Tobago, Anguilla, Belize, St. Christopher/Nevis, the Turks & Caicos Islands and
Suriname.
During this reporting period, no weekly communicable disease reports have been received
from either Anguilla, Suriname, Aruba or the Netherlands Antilles.
Dr. M.J. Lewis & Team
CAREC’s Epidemiology Division
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