Voorbeelden van outbreak

• Most cases of mycoplasma outbreaks occurred in schools (22), among family members (13), and military recruits (10).

• First, before the outbreak, a large proportion of the population was susceptible because of the geographical characteristics of the health district.

• However, there are some things that are difficult to explain if we wish to argue that garlic caused this outbreak.

• The median time from onset of illness in the first patient until investigation of the outbreak was 27 days (range 0 -161).

• The source of the outbreak was traced to an untreated private water supply.

• It was therefore held that there were at least four primary outbreaks in the first fortnight - the index outbreak plus the three ' non-windborne ' outbreaks.

• This may explain the different dynamic of the outbreak that is typical for person-to-person transmission.

• However, mortality rates are still far from sufficient to keep host/prey populations under control and all investigated sites suffer from unabated outbreaks.