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Investigating A Disease Outbreak [PDF]
Significance, 2020 Abstract Teams of epidemiological and medical “detectives” are working to get a coronavirus pandemic under control. Ronald D. Fricker, Jr and Steven E.
Fricker Jr, Ronald D., Rigdon, Steven E.
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Rickettsial Disease Outbreak, Mexico, 2022
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2023 Beginning in 2022, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, experienced an outbreak of rickettsioses that is still ongoing despite multidisciplinary control efforts. A total of 57 cases have been confirmed, particularly affecting children. We report a high mortality rate among hospitalized persons in Nuevo Leon. Continuing efforts are required to control the outbreak.
Ricardo J. Estrada-Mendizabal +9 more
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Legionnaires' disease outbreak: Victoria's largest identified outbreak
Communicable Diseases Intelligence, 2000 This paper describes and analyses some aspects of an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in Victoria, commencing in late October 1998. In all, 18 cases caused by Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 were notified within 10 days making this the largest outbreak in Victoria reported to that date. All cases had epidemiological links to an industrial estate in
N, Formica +7 more
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Communicable disease outbreaks: Ethics in an outbreak
Australian Journal of General Practice, 2020 This fifth article in a series on communicable disease outbreaks explores ethical aspects of public health action, information disclosure and research in an epidemic.
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Waterborne Disease Outbreaks, 1986–1988
Journal of Food Protection, 1991 From 1986 to 1988, 24 states and Puerto Rico reported 50 outbreaks of illness due to water that people intended to drink, affecting 25,846 persons. The protozoal parasite Giardia lamblia was the agent most commonly implicated in outbreaks, as it has been for the last 10 years; many of these outbreaks were associated with ingestion of chlorinated but ...
William C, Levine +2 more
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Tracking disease outbreaks [PDF]
Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union, 2002 Scientists have come one step closer to tracking outbreaks of bartonellosis, a potentially fatal vector‐borne disease. Outbreaks of the disease, which was once thought to be found primarily in the high Andes Mountains of Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia, may be related to El Ni˜no events, according to researchers with NASA and the U.S.
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Impact of a Pay for Performance Strategy in the Improvement of Infection Prevention and Control Practices in Healthcare Facilities in the Context of the 2018 Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak in Nord Kivu: a quasi-experimental study [PDF]
, 2022 Landry Kabego +22 more
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Legionnaires' disease outbreak
Communicable Diseases Intelligence, 1998 Discusses an outbreak of Legionnaire's disease in Victoria, during June and July ...
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1959 Summary of Disease Outbreaks [PDF]
Public Health Reports (1896-1970), 1960 T HE NUMBER of reported outbreaks of waterborne and foodborne diseases was slightly higher in 1959 than in 1958 (table 1). There was a considerable increase in number of reported outbreaks and cases of staphylococcal food poisoning as compared with the previous year, but this was largely offset by smaller numbers in some other categories (table 2 ...
C C, DAUER, D J, DAVIDS
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Conducting Research in Disease Outbreaks
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2009 Conducting research in an emergency situation, such as an outbreak of disease, poses ethical challenges. These challenges differ according to the type of research: epidemiologic or clinical, and for the latter, whether the disease outbreak can be anticipated in advance. We address these three situations, proposing different potential solutions for each.
Ruth Macklin, Ethan Cowan
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