China’s 1-3-7 surveillance and response strategy for malaria elimination: Is case reporting, investigation and foci response happening according to plan?

Table 2 The numbers of various malaria cases in different types^a of county in China, January 2013-June 2014

^aType of county:
Type 1: having local transmission and incidence >1/10,000 in the past 3 years
Type 2: having local transmission and incidence <1/10,000 in the past 3 years
Type 3: no local cases reported in the past years but still with risk of transmission
Type 4: malaria free
^bAn indigenous case is defined as a case contracted indigenously (i.e. within national boundaries)
^cThe origin can be traced to a known malaria endemic area outside the national borders to where the case has travelled within one month

ISSN: 2049-9957