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Table 5 Percentages of communicable disease cases in passengers by the ten vessels contributing the largest number. Together these vessels account for 61.2 % of all cases over the 5 year period

From: An epidemiological study of rates of illness in passengers and crew at a busy Caribbean cruise port

Vessel

No. Cases

% of totalb

Attack ratea per 100,000 (95 % CIs)

1

147

27.53 %

62.69

(53.34–73.67)

2

33

6.18 %

108.40

(77.2–152.2)

3

31

5.81 %

149.10

(105.1–211.6)

4

23

4.31 %

69.73

(46.5–104.6)

5

18

3.37 %

84.78

(53.6–134.0)

6

17

3.18 %

1011.30

(632.4–1614.0)

7

16

3.00 %

52.48

(32.3–85.24)

8

14

2.62 %

145.36

(86.6–243.9)

9

14

2.62 %

99.60

(59.3–167.1)

10

14

2.62 %

94.45

(56.3–158.5)

  1. aAttack rate is based only on the times that the vessel had at least one case of communicable disease, does not include in the denominator passengers on the vessel when there were no cases
  2. bPercentage of all communicable disease cases, 2009 to 2013