Sentence examples for outbreak of cases from inspiring English sources

There has been a small outbreak of cases in Europe, with 13 cases identified by health officials since June last year.

Nevertheless, Quebec public health officials have been tracking the outbreak of cases since June and they have been urging hospitals to reinvigorate their hygiene programs.

The following month the CDC published a report describing an outbreak of cases of a rare cancer called Kaposi sarcoma in homosexual men in New York City and San Francisco.

Three subsequent investigations of S. enterica serotype Schwarzengrund infections were conducted: a 2009 outbreak of 50 cases in New York, New York; a 2010 2011 multistate outbreak of cases predominantly in New York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts; and a 2012 multistate outbreak of cases mostly in Illinois and Michigan.

An outbreak of cases of CL was also reported in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso in 1996 1,8455 cases were identified through retrospective and prospective studies in 1996 to 1998 (12).

All alerts in these areas described outbreaks of cases acquired in a nearby known dengue-endemic region of the country.

A number of epidemiological parameters were used to characterise the outbreaks: number of cases; outbreak size (number of cases divided by flock size); mean incidence; peak incidence over a 12 month period; outbreak duration (time between the first and last confirmed cases in the flock); and age-at-onset of cases.

It implements the ordinary fever surveillance such as monitoring the fever cases and especially the outbreak of fever cases.

Four cases constituted an initial peak, and a second-generation outbreak of 4 cases appeared after contact with the initial case-patients.

During the last outbreak, 18% of cases had travelled abroad to industrialized countries during the six weeks preceding symptom onset.

Identification of the outbreak, definition of cases, and the results of epidemiologic descriptive and cross-sectional studies have been described (2, 3 ).