On November 20, almost 1 month after the first cases had been notified in Saint-Michel-de-l'Attalaye (139,000 inhabitants), we observed several small ongoing cholera outbreaks, striking 1 hamlet after another, leading to 941 cases (including 366 hospitalizations).
The last major Ebola outbreak struck the city of Kikwit in 1995, killing 245 people.
The H5N1 strain of bird flu has not been detected in Britain since 1991, when an outbreak struck a turkey farm in Norfolk.
"The foot-and-mouth outbreak struck just as we started to promote the Miyazaki brand overseas," said Shusuke Iwasaki, an agricultural supervisor at Miyazaki Prefecture.
Federal officials have not yet identified the cause of a salmonella outbreak striking almost 400 people in 42 states, but state officials in Minnesota said they believed peanut butter might be involved.
Last month, the outbreak struck at the symbolic heart of the city, with the discovery of infected mosquitoes in Central Park, and the city closed the park overnight in order to spray there.
Since a deadly Ebola outbreak struck Zaire in 1995, central Africa has suffered nearly a dozen outbreaks of the deadly hemorrhagic fever.
Memish agrees that there seems to be some seasonality in how MERS strikes humans: The first known human cases were from a cluster in Jordan in April 2012, he says, last year in April an outbreak struck four hospitals in the Al Hasa area in Saudi Arabia, and now there is a cluster of cases in Jeddah.
Indeed, part of the agreement includes a provision for Merck to stockpile 300,000 doses right now in case another outbreak strikes before the drug is completely vetted.
However, when a flu outbreak strikes Pawnee in "Flu Season", Chris becomes severely ill, as due to his extreme workout regimen, he has a poor immune system and low body fat.
