Table 3 Countries with low endemic rates (<2 case/100,000 population per year)

African Region

No country in this region is in the low rate category

European Region

Austria

1999–2010

1.02–1.2

B, C

[23, 24]

Bulgaria

2000–2010

0.11–1.1

*

[23, 28]

Croatia

1997–2005

0.7–1.3

*

[28]

Cyprus

1997–2010

0.13–1.7

*

[23, 28]

Czech Republic

1999–2010

0.57–1.0

B, C

[23, 24]

Estonia

2001–2010

0.15–1.6

*

[23, 28]

Finland

1999–2010

0.64–1.1

B

[23, 24]

France

0.7–1.13

B, C

Germany

0.47–0.73

B, C

Hungary

2004–2010

0.3–0.4

*

Italy

1999–2010

0.25–0.55

B, C

Latvia

2004–2008

0.25–1.03

*

Poland

1999–2010

0.17–0.84

B

Serbia

2000

0.9

*

[28]

Slovakia

2004–2010

0.59–0.9

*

[23, 24][23, 24]

Slovenia

1999–2010

0.3–1.2

*

Sweden

2004–2010

0.5–0.7

B, C

Eastern Mediterranean Region

No country in this region is in the low rate category

Region of the Americas

Argentina

2009

0.6

B

[31]

Canada

1985–2006

1.4 (pre-vaccine)

C

[32, 33]

Vaccination in 2001–2 in all provinces

0.4 (post-vaccine)

Chile

1998–2006

0.8

B

[19]

Columbia

0.3

Y

Mexico

0.1

C

USA

2000–2009

0.8 (pre-vaccine)

Equal B, C,Y

[34]

Routine vaccination program started in 2005

0.3 (post-vaccine)

Venezuela

0.3

Y

[19]

South-East Asia Region

Korea

2002–2008

<0.1

[35]

Thailand

2007–2008

<0.1

[36]

Higher in <5 year olds

Western Pacific Region

China

2000 onward

<0.2

A, C

[37, 38]

Japan

1999–2004

<0.02

*

[39]

Philippines

2004–2008

<0.1

A

[1]

Singapore

2005–2009

0.1–0.2

[36, 40]

25/100,000 in Hajj pilgrims in 2000 [41]

Taiwan

2000–2001

0.1–0.2

A

[42]

Eastern Mediterranean Region

No country in this region is in the low rate category