The abrupt end of the outbreak documented the crucial need to inform the public immediately about health threats because a delay of even a few hours could be life-threatening.
This outbreak documented that large rubella outbreaks occur in countries without rubella vaccination programs.
The Mayaro fever outbreak at La Estación in 2010 is noteworthy because, with the exception of a family found to be seropositive (20 ), it probably represents the first outbreak documented in Venezuela.
As in another outbreak documented in a camp in the Muzaffarabad area (5 ), rapid detection, response, and implementation of control measures are critical for minimizing the illness and death associated with outbreaks in these high-risk populations.
On July 27 , 2009 an outbreak documented in wild birds at Doroo Lake in central Mongolia, where there are no poultry, was attributed to H5N1, including two Bar-headed Geese marked by our team during the previous year.
This prevalence estimate was similar to that reported in the few yaws outbreaks documented in other African countries, such as in Ghana in 1981 (4.0%) [15] and in the mid-Hawal river valley in Nigeria in 1998 (4.2%) [36].
Of the 894 outbreaks documenting year of occurrence, 72% occurred between 2000 and 2010.
Investigations of these previous outbreaks document the importance of unseasonable rains and improper storage of homegrown maize in aflatoxicosis outbreaks.
Most outbreaks documented could have been prevented by using standard precautions and practicing basic infection control (14, 16 ).
This same risk is the primary cause for HCV transmission in many outbreaks documented in United States and European Union health care [ 18, 19].
