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This mortality was lower than that observed during the ten preceding epidemic periods (13.8 % on average).
For a successful reconstruction of a preceding epidemic, a careful selection of the epidemic is highly important.
Note that our data correlates with the more detailed Figure 8 of the Jutla and colleagues report, 1 which fails to indicate excessive rainfall during the 30-day period preceding epidemic onset.
As shown in Figure 3, there was evidence that V. cholerae O1 isolation was more common in the environment preceding epidemic peaks of disease among humans; however, numbers of isolations were too small to permit statistical analysis.
Hence, we do not agree with their claim "which fails to indicate excessive rainfall during the 30-day period preceding epidemic onset (page 2; line 39)", when their own analysis shows that September 2010 precipitation was more than the climatological average.
In an Austrian study, mortality attributable to A(H1N1 2009 influenza virus adjusted on co-circulating respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in the area of Vienna, Austria was lower during the pandemic than during the preceding epidemic periods (1999/2000 2008/2009).
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In sequential epidemics, strains within these genotypes appeared to be of two types: those continuing from the preceding epidemics and those newly introduced.
5 During times of peak transmission, amplification of JEV in immunologically naive pigs within the vicinity of human habitation precedes epidemic transmission to humans.
During the 2009 influenza A H1N1 pandemic, school outbreaks often preceded epidemics in the general community [ 7, 9].
The long dry season preceding the epidemic of 2000 [80] may thus partially explain the outbreak.
When annual averages were compared, no particular variations in minimal or maximal mean air temperatures were found to occur during the months preceding the epidemic.
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