Fresh produce, overseen by the Food and Drug Administration, is increasingly seen as a potential source of disease.
All but one (95%) had had direct physical contact with the patient who was the likely source of their disease; the remaining person (case-patient 7) had slept wrapped up in a blanket left by his brother, who had just died of EHF.
However, although zoonotic pathogens do represent the most likely source of emerging and reemerging infectious disease, only a small minority have proved capable of causing major epidemics in the human population.
Officials say the complex is the likely source of the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease at a nearby farm last Friday.
Patient characteristics include age, sex, clinical characteristics of initial disease manifestation, and history of likely source of exposure to possible sources of infection with H5N1.
The data (Supplementary File S1) reported: date of disease onset; outcome (death/recovery); date of outcome; and likely source of transmission (syringe during outpatient visit/person-to-person transmission/both/other).
Dr Derek Gatherer, an expert in diseases and viruses at Lancaster University, said an animal was the most likely source of the outbreak.
"He sees China as a pretty likely source of that".
Still, he said he doubted that the disease would follow the ticks all the way down the Mississippi River, because at the southern reaches of the river, the rodents that could act as a reservoir of infection were largely replaced by lizards as the ticks' most likely source of food.
One likely source of this variation is preparation of the calibration source.
The likely source of the contamination?
