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...complacency on the Special Autonomous Region's part that it had solved its problems with bird flu. Health authorities worry about a repeat of 1997, when a strain of avian flu virus?H5N1?jumped directly from a bird to a human. Eighteen people were infected; six died. And the outbreak caused worldwide concern among health experts, who feared a possible global pandemic. Now, despite what is described as a first-class surveillance system for its poultry, Hong Kong is suffering its third lethal outbreak of bird flu in nearly five years. Flu experts can't explain why. But a lack...
...Dunster and Mather House dining halls closed for breakfast and lunch yesterday following an outbreak of a stomach illness that hospitalized at least 16 students who had eaten in the two dining halls...
Health inspectors conducted surveys of the sick students to determine what they had eaten in the last 72 hours and took samples of food from the dining halls to test for bacteria or viruses that could have caused the outbreak...
...director Joseph Griffin said it is still too early to tell the cause of Tuesday’s outbreak...
...going to stop being anxious about whooping cough. I'm too busy anyway, what with the outbreak of a mysterious rash in elementary schools in Philadelphia. That's only two hours drive from my place...