Malaria Threatens to Bounce Back in Abergele District, Northeast Ethiopia: Five-Year Retrospective Trend Analysis from 2016-2020 in Nirak Health Center

Table 1

Suspected and slide-confirmed annual malaria cases at Nirak Health Center, Abergele District, Northeast Ethiopia.

Year	Number of examined; (%)	Slide-positive			Plasmodium species
		Male; (%)	Female; (%)	Total cases; (%)	P. falciparum; (%)	P. vivax; (%)	Mixed; (%)
2016	2854 (14.7)	322 (71.2)	130 (28.8)	452 (15.8)	442 (97.8)	9 (2.0)	1 (0.2)
2017	2875 (14.8)	601 (66.3)	305 (33.7)	906 (31.5)	860 (94.9)	46 (5.1)	0 (0.0)
2018	4335 (22.3)	902 (59.4)	617 (40.6)	1519 (35.0)	1499 (98.7)	19 (1.2)	1 (0.1)
2019	4773 (24.6)	1112 (63.7)	635 (36.3)	1747 (36.6)	1348 (77.2)	302 (17.3)	97 (5.5)
2020	4596 (23.6)	1086 (58.7)	763 (41.3)	1849 (40.2)	1751 (94.7)	98 (5.3)	0 (0.0)
Total	19433 (100)	4023 (62.2)	2450 (37.8)	6473 (33.3)	5900 (91.2)	474 (7.3)	99 (1.5)