A strain of R-type ACSSpSuT that also lacked the SSP and with a PFP indistinguishable from that of the ACSSpSuTTm strain caused a simultaneous outbreak with >40 cases (7).
Eggs from the same farms were also suspected in a simultaneous outbreak that sickened some 400 people in Massachusetts.
"Compressing the vaccination program into one month will create a near simultaneous outbreak of absenteeism in all the emergency rooms in the country," he said.
In 1976, the world's attention was caught by two almost simultaneous outbreaks of a new and then a mysterious virus named Ebola (Fig. 1) in the Sudan and what was then Zaire, now known as the Democratic Republic of Congo.
We offer a hypothesis that persistently low irradiance contributed to remarkably simultaneous outbreaks of famine and Justinianic plague in the eastern Roman Empire with adverse effects on crop production and photosynthesis of the vitamin D in human skin and thus, collectively, human health.
Simultaneous outbreaks of the flu and meningitis have killed 185 people in a rebel-controlled area of northwestern Congo, a World Health Organization official said.
There, simultaneous outbreaks of cholera, malaria and Rift Valley fever followed heavy rains and flooding.
Ebola was first identified in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sudan in 1976, which suffered simultaneous outbreaks of different strains miles apart.
In a teleconference last week, W.H.O. officials asked scientists who participate in the agency's influenza network how seriously they viewed the simultaneous outbreaks of avian influenza in so many countries.
In an interview with The New York Times in 1998 about that year's outbreak of cholera and malaria in South America in the wake of El Niño flooding, and simultaneous outbreaks of cholera, malaria and Rift Valley fever in Africa after heavy rains and flooding, Dr. Epstein made the case for linkage.
These observations and the co-occurrence of distinct clonal complexes are consistent with the idea that there were multiple simultaneous outbreaks of cholera in Kenya.
