Latitude-based approach for detecting aberrations of hand, foot, and mouth disease epidemics

Table 1 Annual data summary of HFMD sentinel surveillance, Japan, 2008–2014

Year	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014
Cumulative reported cases	145,185	68,578	151,021	347,407	72,822	303,339	83,683
Cumulative cases per sentinel	48.12	22.69	49.87	110.89	23.17	96.54	26.62
Numbers of sentinels	3017	3022	3028	3133	3143	3142	3144

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