A Fatal Waterborne Outbreak of Pesticide Poisoning Caused by Damaged Pipelines, Sindhikela, Bolangir, Orissa, India, 2008

Table 2

Characteristics of organophosphorous poisoning cases and controls, Sindhikela, Bolangir, Orissa, India, 2008.

Characteristics	Cases			Controls			OR	Confidence interval
	Number	Total	%	Number	Total	%
Age (0–13 years)	36	65	55	19	65	29	3.0	1.4–6.2
Sex (Male)	42	65	65	40	65	61	1.1	0.5–2.3
Drinking supply water	54	65	83	8	65	12	35	13–93
Roadside eatery attendance
Eating any foot item	48	65	74	36	65	55	2.3	1.1–4.7
Eating pakoda alone(1)	27	48	56	30	36	83	0.3	0.1–0.7
Eating pakoda & chutney(1)	21	48	44	6	36	17	3.9	1.4–11

(1)Analysis restricted to the 48 case patients and the 36 control subjects who ate at the roadside eatery.