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Weekly releases (1997–2007) - Volume 6, Issue 4, 24 January 2002
Volume 6, Issue 4, 2002
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Fatal case of diphtheria in an unvaccinated infant, Finland 2001
In November 2001, a 3 month old, previously healthy, unvaccinated infant died of diphtheria in south eastern Finland. The illness began with laryngeal cough and low grade fever, and progressed in one week to severe respiratory distress requiring mechanical ventilation
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Toxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae var mitis isolated from a child from north west England
A toxigenic strain of Corynebacterium diphtheriae var mitis was isolated on 14 January from a throat swab from an 11 year old boy from a religious community in Salford, north west England (1). The child had developed a sore throat on 5 January, six days after returning from a one week holiday with four members of his family in Jerusalem, Israel. The throat swab was taken on 7 January
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A case of typhoid in a student community and subsequent public health measures
R Nusser , W Kiehl and B TwisselmannTimely public health measures and close collaboration between the health authorities, physicians, the patient, and contacts can limit infection transmission, as the following report from Germany’s surveillance bulletin shows (1). A 23 year old Indian man arrived on 1 October 2001 in a small town in southern Germany to start a course of studies at a college for higher education. He shared his room with another Indian man; the other five rooms in the residence were occupied by 10 fellow students from different countries who attended one of two colleges.
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Immunisation against meningococcal meningitis for haj and Umrah
This year’s recommendations by the Department of Health (DH) for England for immunisation against meningococcal meningitis for pilgrims planning to travel to Mecca on haj or Umrah were reported in last week’s Communicable Disease Report (1). An outbreak of meningococcal serogroup A infection occurred among pilgrims on the haj pilgrimage of 1987, resulting in outbreaks in other countries including the United Kingdom (UK).
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Chikungunya in north-eastern Italy: a summing up of the outbreak
R Angelini , A C Finarelli , P Angelini , C Po , K Petropulacos , G Silvi , P Macini , C Fortuna , G Venturi , F Magurano , C Fiorentini , A Marchi , E Benedetti , P Bucci , S Boros , R Romi , G Majori , M G Ciufolini , L Nicoletti , G Rezza and A Cassone
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