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Volume 21, Number 2—February 2015
Dispatch

Exposure-Based Screening for Nipah Virus Encephalitis, Bangladesh

Hossain M.S. SazzadComments to Author , Stephen P. Luby, Ute Ströher, Peter Daszak, Sharmin Sultana, Sayma Afroj, Mahmudur Rahman, and Emily S. Gurley
Author affiliations: icddr,b,1 Dhaka, Bangladesh (H.M.S. Sazzad, S. Afroj, E.S. Gurley); Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA (S.P. Luby); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (U. Ströher); EcoHealth Alliance, New York, New York, USA (P. Daszak); Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research, Dhaka (S. Sultana, M. Rahman)

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Table 1

Proportion of encephalitis patients with history of reported exposures to drinking date palm sap or contact with patients with encephalitis by Nipah serodiagnosis in 3 surveillance hospitals, Bangladesh, 2012–13 Nipah virus season

Reported risk factor
 Overall, Dec–Mar, no. (%) Peak incidence during Jan–Feb, no. (%)
IgM positive, n = 17
 IgM negative, n = 311
 Total, n = 328
IgM positive, n = 15
 IgM negative, n = 132
 Total, n = 147
History of drinking raw date palm sap 9 (47) 45 (14) 54 (16) 9 (60) 24 (18) 33 (22)
History of drinking fermented date palm sap 2 (11) 0 2 (1) 2 (13) 0 2 (1)
History of contact with other encephalitis patients 3 (18) 0 3 (1) 3 (20) 0 3 (2)
No history of drinking raw or fermented date palm sap or contact with encephalitis patients 3 (18) 266 (86) 269 (82) 1 (7) 108 (5) 109 (47)

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1Formerly International Center for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh.

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