But this is exactly the time, experts believe, that Europeans should be girding for a more widespread outbreak.
A recent outbreak of dengue fever in the north of the Australian state of Queensland highlights another probable, but less direct, human health outcome with global public health consequences: reduced availability of fresh blood products due to more intense, more frequent and more geographically widespread outbreaks of vector-borne disease.
Although it is true that working in a hospital during times of influenza outbreak puts one at a greater risk for contracting the illness, 10 the more widespread the outbreak, the more people become sick, and the more likely the 'stayat-home' HCW will become sick even after having avoided contact in the course of his or her duties.
Also, lead contamination tends to be more widespread versus a Legionnaires' outbreak, which is generally isolated to a specific building. .
Brotherhood leaders warned they could not restrain the anger of supporters across the country and said they feared the outbreak of more widespread violence in coming weeks as the full scale of the massacre in Cairo sinks in.
"Belief in old practices, rampant misinformation, and apathetic, corrupt politicians have combined to make the current outbreak much more widespread than it should be," he said in the documentary.
State health officials estimate that because of incomplete testing and the assumption that many people with mild cases are not seeking medical treatment, perhaps as few as one in five pertussis cases is being recorded and tracked, suggesting that the outbreak is far more widespread than the numbers indicate.
The RPORITA bases the prediction of the threshold on the previous threshold values within the specific outbreak, allowing for a more widespread application.
In contrast, an outbreak during November 2010 April 2011 was much more widespread (7 ).
Although there have been minor outbreaks in previous decades, this one is much more widespread, and more than 20 species of sea stars have been afflicted; other kinds of echinoderms, the animal group to which sea stars and sea urchins belong, have not.
