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Table 1 Description of the total number of cases of major infectious diseases, average age, number of male and female cases and their ratio, and time interval

From: Comparison of 19 major infectious diseases during COVID-19 epidemic and previous years in Zhejiang, implications for prevention measures

Disease

Number of cases 2017–2020

(n)

Sex

Median age

Mean Interval from onset to diagnosis

Male

(n, percent)

Female

(n, percent)

HFMD

483,934

284,218 (58.73)

199,716 (41.27)

2

1.04

Others

431,809

236,457 (54.76)

195,352 (45.24)

3

1.66

Dysentery

6966

3847 (55.23)

3119 (44.77)

25

1.51

Hepatitis e

6551

4004 (61.12)

2547 (38.88)

51

5.29

AHC

2990

1635 (54.68)

1355 (45.32)

36

1.39

Typhoid

705

351 (49.79)

354 (50.21)

42

6.72

Paratyphoid

243

132 (54.32)

111 (45.68)

26

6.25

Cholera

11

8 (72.73)

3 (27.27)

42

3.00

Dengue

2421

1360 (56.18)

1061 (43.82)

45

4.02

Scrub typhus

1310

617 (47.10)

693 (52.90)

59

5.03

Haemorrhagic fever

1212

877 (72.36)

335 (27.64)

51

6.41

Malaria

566

508 (89.75)

58 (10.25)

42

3.41

Brucellosis

373

269 (72.12)

104 (27.88)

51

9.59

SFTS

281

153 (54.45)

128 (45.55)

66

5.15

Leptospirosis

110

95 (86.36)

15 (13.64)

63.5

7.98

Rabies

33

30 (90.91)

3 (9.09)

51

4.00

Typhus

27

16 (57.14)

12 (42.86)

62

8.44

Influenza

867,265

444,107 (51.21)

423,158 (48.79)

8

1.24

Scarlet fever

8073

4854 (60.13)

3219 (39.87)

6

1.58

All

1,814,881

983,538 (54.19)

831,343 (45.81)

5

1.32

  1. HFMD hand, foot, and mouth disease, Others infectious diarrheal diseases other than cholera, dysentery, typhoid, and paratyphoid, AHC acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis, SFTS severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome