Historical experience in the elimination of visceral leishmaniasis in the plain region of Eastern and Central China

Table 1 Epidemic situation of VL in the plain region

*Province*	*Year of survey*	*Number of endemic counties/cities*	*Prevalence rate (/10,000)*	*Estimated number of cases (10,000)*
Shandong [15]	1951	135	35.0	18.0
Jiangsu [16]	1951–1952	24	44.0	3.2
Anhui [16]	1951–1952	19	18.0	2.5
Shaanxi [17]	1952	44	46.0	4.0
Henan [18]	1951	79	50.0	12.2*
Hebei [19]	1950–1953	88	-	**
Hubei [20]	1957	6	5.8	0.0508

*In that year, there were 122 counties/cities with presence of VL and 180,000 estimated patients. Calculated by the average number of cases, there were at least 122,000 VL cases in 79 counties/cities in the plain region of the province.
**Before the founding of the People’s Republic, there were about 100,000 VL cases [19].

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