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Table 2 Years of Life Lost (YLL) due to rhodesiense sleeping sickness in Serere, Uganda. Values are mean values (with lower and upper 95% confidence intervals) from 10,000 Monte-Carlo simulations, derived from data from 1999–2005.

From: Estimating the burden of rhodesiense sleeping sickness during an outbreak in Serere, eastern Uganda

Age of onset

Study population

Annual reported non-fatal early cases

Annual reported non-fatal late cases

Annual reported deaths

Annual YLLs with 0% under-reporting (age weighted)

Annual YLLs with 0% under-reporting (non-age weighted)

Annual deaths with 69% under-reporting

Annual YLLs with 69% under-reporting (age weighted)

Annual YLLs with 69% under-reporting (non-age weighted)

0–4

7145

1.6 (0–3)

2.1 (0–4)

0.1 (0–1)

4 (0–28)

3.5 (0–24.8)

2.8 (0.5–5.5)

86.9 (17–170)

71.4 (13.9–140.1)

5–14

12432

5.7 (2–13)

11.4 (3–17)

1 (0–3)

33.2 (0–100.5)

24 (0–73.3)

12.7 (4.2–27)

423.2 (141.1–902.5)

308.7 (102.4–660.5)

15–29

12687

9.9 (3–16)

16.7 (9–23)

0.7 (0–2)

19.7 (0–52.8)

14.9 (0–40.4)

19 (7–34.8)

552.7 (199.1–1027.2)

406.3 (147.3–752.8)

30–44

6857

4.6 (1–8)

9.4 (4–18)

0.6 (0–1)

10.3 (0–18.7)

9.8 (0–18)

10.1 (4.4–21.8)

210.6 (90.6–444.7)

184.6 (79.8–391.8)

45–59

4668

2.4 (0–5)

6.7 (3–10)

0.1 (0–1)

1.9 (0–13.1)

2.1 (0–15)

6.5 (2.1–12.2)

83.4 (28.6–154.3)

93.3 (31.4–171.5)

60–69

1850

2.4 (0–5)

4.1 (3–7)

0.9 (0–2)

6.1 (0–16.4)

8.7 (0–22.6)

5.4 (1.6–10.4)

39.4 (10.4–74.3)

55.6 (15–105.9)

70–79

781

0.1 (0–1)

2.3 (0–4)

0.3 (0–1)

1.1 (0–4.4)

1.9 (0–7.5)

1.9 (0–4.6)

8 (0–19.2)

13.5 (0–32.5)

80+

235

0.6 (0–3)

0.4 (0–2)

0.1 (0–1)

0.2 (0–1.2)

0.4 (0–3)

0.8 (0–3.5)

1.6 (0–6.5)

3.5 (0–14.3)

Totals

46655

27.3 (7–48)

53.3 (24–73)

3.9 (1–8)

76.4 (17.3–160)

65.4 (16.2–132.1)

59.2 (25.2–109.1)

1405.8 (608.8–2657.2)

1136.8 (493–2132.2)