Table 5 Comparison of the mean burden due to sleeping sickness and malaria for Serere health facility, Soroti District, Uganda (data for malaria are from 1999 records). The YLLs, YLDs and DALYs figures in parenthesises where calculated with age weighting, while those outside the parentheses were calculated without age-weighting.
From: Estimating the burden of rhodesiense sleeping sickness during an outbreak in Serere, eastern Uganda
| Â | Sleeping sickness | Â | Ratio of sleeping sickness : malaria | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Â | No under reporting | 69% under-reporting | Malaria Observed | No under-reporting | 69% under-reporting |
Cases | 84.5 | 143.5 | 11,228 | 1 : 133 | 1 : 78 |
In-patients | 84.5 | 84.5 | 763 | 1 : 9.0 | 1 : 9.0 |
Deaths | 4 | 59 | 2 | 1 : 0.50 | 1 : 0.03 |
YLLs | 65 (76) | 1137 (1406) | 150.4 (176.6) | 1:2.3 (1 : 2.3) | 1 : 0.1 (1 : 0.1) |
YLDs | 21 (25) | 21 (25) | 120.3 (130.4) | 1 : 5.7 (1 : 5.2) | 1 : 5.7 (1 : 5.2) |
DALYs | 86 (101) | 1157 (1430) | 270.7 (306.9) | 1 : 3.1 (1 : 3.0) | 1 : 0.23 (1 : 0.21) |