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Legionnaires' disease outbreak: Victoria's largest identified outbreak.

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 a northern Melbourne suburb. Extensive env...

Trichinellosis Outbreak

lowed by the reintroduction in Perak of the original strain from bats and its subsequent southward movement in infected pigs, would explain observed strain differences. Models suggest that evolution of the virus within pig populations would result in lower death rates but prolonged illness. Although the pig-adapted virus strain may have circulated on both northern and southern farms, sampling b...

A new outbreak of rinderpest in Iran

Outbreak management and implications of a nosocomial norovirus outbreak.

BACKGROUND Noroviruses are enterically transmitted and are a frequent cause of gastroenteritis, affecting 23 million people annually in the United States. We describe a norovirus outbreak and its control in a tertiary care hospital during February-May 2004. METHODS Patients and health care workers met the case definition if they had new onset of vomiting and/or diarrhea during the outbreak pe...

Navigating an outbreak: geospatial methods for STI outbreak investigations

Outbreaks of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are a continued public health concern. In this issue, for example, Foster and colleagues describe an outbreak of gonorrhoea that affected over 300 people in a discrete population in England, predominantly young heterosexual adults. Outbreaks of other emerging, or re-emerging, infections such as shigella and syphilis have also been detected wit...