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History of Newcastle disease in South Africa

Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, 2017
Poultry production in South Africa, a so-called developing country, may be seen as a gradient between two extremes with highly integrated commercial enterprises with world-class facilities on one hand and unimproved rural chickens kept by households and ...
Celia Abolnik
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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, G, Tallis, B, Zwolak, J, Camie, M, Beers, G, Hogg, N, Ryan, M, Yates   +7 more
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Dynamics of multi-stage infections on networks [PDF]

, 2015
This paper investigates the dynamics of infectious diseases with a nonexponentially distributed infectious period. This is achieved by considering a multistage infection model on networks. Using pairwise approximation with a standard closure, a number of
AJ Black, AL Lloyd, AL Lloyd, CA Donnelly, CT Bauch, D Anderson, DR Cox, DT Gillespie, E Kenah, EH Kaplan, G Chowell, HJ Wearing, HTH Nguyen, HW Hethcote, I. Z. Kiss, J Ma, JC Miller, JM Hyman, JP Koplan, K Sharkey, K. B. Blyuss, KB Blyuss, KTD Eames, KTD Eames, L Danon, M Newman, M Newman, M Taylor, MEJ Newman, MI Meltzer, MJ Keeling, MJ Keeling, MJ Keeling, MJ Keeling, MJ Keeling, N MacDonald, N. Sherborne, NM Ferguson, NM Ferguson, NTJ Bailey, O Diekmann, O Diekmann, P Driessche van den, P Rattana, R Durrett, RE Hope-Simpson, RM Anderson, S Bansal, S Boccaletti, S Cauchemez, S Funk, S Riley, T House, T House, T House, TL Burr, V Andreasen, W Kermack, W-Y Chen, Z Feng   +59 more
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Effects of regional differences and demography in modelling foot-and-mouth disease in cattle at the national scale [PDF]

, 2019
Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is a fast-spreading viral infection that can produce large and costly outbreaks in livestock populations. Transmission occurs at multiple spatial scales, as can the actions used to control outbreaks. The US cattle industry is
Beck-Johnson, Lindsay M., Hallman, Clayton, Lindström, Tom, Miller, Ryan S., Murrieta, Deedra J., Portacci, Katie, Sellman, Stefan, Tildesley, Michael J., Tsao, Kimberly, Webb, Colleen T.   +9 more
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Analysis of foodborne disease outbreaks in Chinese Mainland in 2021

Zhongguo shipin weisheng zazhi, 2022
ObjectiveThe epidemiological characteristics of foodborne disease outbreaks in Chinese Mainland in 2021 were analyzed to provide scientific basis for further prevention and control strategies.MethodsThe epidemiological characteristics of outbreaks of ...
LI Hongqiu, JIA Huayun, ZHAO Shuai, SONG Jian, LIU Zhitao, FU Ping, LIU Jikai, LI Weiwei, HAN Haihong, GUO Yunchuang   +9 more
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Historical parallels, Ebola virus disease and cholera: understanding community distrust and social violence with epidemics [PDF]

, 2016
In the three West African countries most affected by the recent Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak, resistance to public health measures contributed to the startling speed and persistence of this epidemic in the region.
Cohn, Samuel, Kutalek, Ruth
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Factors Contributing to Decline in Foodborne Disease Outbreak Reports, United States

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2014
The number of foodborne disease outbreaks reported in the United States declined substantially in 2009, when the surveillance system transitioned from reporting only foodborne disease outbreaks to reporting all enteric disease outbreaks.
Maho Imanishi, Karunya Manikonda, Bhavini P. Murthy, L. Hannah Gould   +3 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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A review of epidemiological parameters from Ebola outbreaks to inform early public health decision-making. [PDF]

, 2015
The unprecedented scale of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has, as of 29 April 2015, resulted in more than 10,884 deaths among 26,277 cases. Prior to the ongoing outbreak, Ebola virus disease (EVD) caused relatively small outbreaks (maximum outbreak ...
Bento, AI, Donnelly, CA, Ferguson, NM, Mills, HL, Van Kerkhove, MD   +4 more
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Mass Gatherings and Respiratory Disease Outbreaks in the United States - Should We Be Worried? Results from a Systematic Literature Review and Analysis of the National Outbreak Reporting System.

PLoS ONE, 2016
BackgroundBecause mass gatherings create environments conducive for infectious disease transmission, public health officials may recommend postponing or canceling large gatherings during a moderate or severe pandemic.
Jeanette J Rainey, Tiffani Phelps, Jianrong Shi   +2 more
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