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Table 1 Number of sleeping sickness patients detected in the Campo HAT focus and the prevalence of the disease from 1998 to 2001

From: Challenges towards the elimination of Human African Trypanosomiasis in the sleeping sickness focus of Campo in southern Cameroon

Year of medical surveys

Number of persons examined

Number of HAT patients detected

Prevalence of the disease

1998

5255

16

0.3%

1999

No medical survey

2*

-

2000

No medical survey

-

-

2001

No medical survey

-

-

2002

1386

10

0.72%

2003

2089

15

0.71%

2004

2647

18 (4*)

0.68%

2005

No medical survey

-

-

2006

3284

7

0.21%

2007

4321

3

0.07%

2008

3528

6 (2*)

0.17%

2009

3120

16 (6*)

0.51%

2010

1742

15 (3*)

0.86%

2011

2966

9

0.3%

  1. *: Number of patients detected through passive case detection.