Weekly releases (1997–2007) - Volume 8, Issue 3, 15 January 2004

Seventy one cases of legionnaires’ disease have been reported to the local health authorities in Pas-de-Calais (northern France) since 28 November 2003

Avian influenza virus strain A(H5N1), which normally infects only birds, has been found in samples from 3 human patients in Vietnam in the past week

Helgeland Hospital admitted four patients for botulism infection after they had eaten homemade ‘rakfisk’ in late 2003