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Figure 1.8, cont'd
DPR). Five countries reported data up to the year 2010 (Bhutan, Georgia,
Nepal, Sri Lanka and Thailand) with the majority (14/23) providing data up
to 2008. India and China's last year of reporting was 2007.
Transmission was estimated to span 9 million square kilometres of land
in Asia (around 45% of the total land area in Asia). The majority of this area
(61%; 5.60 million km
2
) was at unstable risk. The areas at risk in India and
China covered 2.97 and 2.82 million km
2
each and, therefore, comprised
63% of the total area at risk in Asia (Panel A1 of
Fig. 1.3
).
Estimating endemicity
. There were 2665 records of prevalence data col-
lected from the region. The three most data-rich countries were Viet Nam
(
n
= 657), Afghanistan (
n
= 493) and Bangladesh (
n
= 365), as illustrated in
