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Table 2 The characteristics of malaria in China from 2011 to 2014 [18–21]

From: Major parasitic diseases of poverty in mainland China: perspectives for better control

Year

Number of malaria cases

Number of deaths

Annual incidence

The proportion of endemic counties

The proportion of laboratory confirmed cases

The proportion of foreign imported cases

Major malaria endemic province

2011

4 479 (3 658 laboratory confirmed cases and 821 clinically diagnosed cases)

33

0.0334/10 000

27.4 % (782/2 856)

P. falciparum: 40.2 %

P. vivax: 56.7 %

P. ovale or P. malaride: 1.9 %

Mixed infection: 1.1 %

66.4 %

Anhui 40.0 % Yunnan 25.8 % Henan 12.6 % Guizhou 10.4 % Hubei 6.1 %

2012

2 718 (2 599 laboratory confirmed cases and 119 clinically diagnosed cases)

15

0.0202/10 000

21.7 % (620/2 853)

P. falciparum: 54.6 %

P. vivax: 41.6 %

P. ovale or P. malaride: 2.1 % Mixed infection: 1.7 %

91.0 %

Yunnan 31.4 % Guangxi 8.1 % Jiangsu 7.3 % Hunan 5.8 % Sichuan 5.7 %

2013

4 128 (4 087 laboratory confirmed cases and 41 clinically diagnosed cases)

23

0.0305/10 000

21.2 % (605/2 852)

P. falciparum: 71.2 %

P. vivax: 22.8 %

P. ovale or P. malaride: 4.5 %

Mixed infection: 1.6 %

97.9 %

Guangxi 30.3 % Yunnan 14.0 % Jiangsu 8.3 % Sichuan 5.8 %

Zhejiang 5.0 %

2014

3 078 (3 057 laboratory confirmed cases and 21 clinically diagnosed cases)

25

0.0226/10 000

23.8 % (680/2 853)

P. falciparum: 61.6 %

P. vivax: 27.7 %

P. ovale or P. malaride: 9.3 %

Mixed infection: 1.4 %

98.1 %

Yunnan 17.3 %

Jiangsu 11.5 %

Sichuan 8.6 %

Henan 7.0 %

Zhejiang 7.0 %