Alwar A J
Department of Paediatrics, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi.
East Afr Med J. 1992 Aug;69(8):415-8.
In a study of 7,631 cases referred to the infectious diseases hospital, Nairobi with a diagnosis of measles, 7,447 cases had the diagnosis confirmed. The overall mortality was 17.5 per 1000 cases with 43.51 of all the deaths occurring in all children less than 12 months of age. A nutritional analysis revealed that children whose weight were below 80 of the Harvard median of weight for age stayed in hospital longest and had the highest mortality rate. Measles continues to offer increasing challenge in spite of the intensive vaccination programme presently being carried out.
在一项针对转诊至内罗毕传染病医院、诊断为麻疹的7631例病例的研究中，7447例病例的诊断得到确诊。总体死亡率为每1000例17.5例，所有死亡病例中有43.51%发生在12个月以下的儿童中。一项营养分析显示，体重低于哈佛年龄别体重中位数80%的儿童住院时间最长，死亡率最高。尽管目前正在实施强化疫苗接种计划，但麻疹仍然带来越来越大的挑战。
