The authors of the letter, one of whom studied the toxicology reports, say the outbreak suggests mass sociogenic illness.
The first quick-and-dirty analysis of Mexico's swine flu outbreak suggests that the H1N1 virus is about as dangerous as the virus behind a 1957 pandemic that killed 2 million people worldwide.
The study of the initial C. gattii strains from the Vancouver Island outbreak suggests that following a natural event involving recombinational exchange between two ancestral strains, progeny were produced, which were much more virulent than the parental strains [15].
Though we will never know the exact cause of death of Patient G and H, sudden death of a previously healthy individual is a rare event and clustering of the deaths in time and place during a Nipah outbreak suggests that Nipah infection was a likely cause of the deaths.
The occurrence of this large serogroup W135 outbreak suggests that multiserogroup conjugate vaccine should be deployed for control and prevention.
This outbreak suggests that handwashing sinks in high-intensity hospital care areas may be a reservoir for K. oxytoca and that person-to-person transmission may also occur.
