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Infectious Disease
Trichinellosis rates increasing in Serbia
June 23rd, 2003
Trichinellosis is reemerging as a serious public health threat in Serbia. "Over the past decade, eastern Europe has experienced a resurgence of trichinellosis," researchers in Denmark noted in the Journal of Parasitology. "A recent outbreak in Serbia, Yugoslavia, from December 2001 to January 2002, involving 309 people, revealed many of the causes for this reemergence." "Epidemiological investigations indicate that the immediate cause of the recent outbreak was the consumption of smoked sausages produced by a small slaughterhouse or meat processor," according to M. Djordjevic and colleagues at the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University...
Source: Life Science Weekly (2003-06-23)
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