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Epidemics
New findings reported from U.C. Chaturvedi and co-authors describe advances in epidemics
March 17th, 2009
Current study results from the report, 'Dengue and dengue haemorrhagic fever: Indian perspective,' have been published. "The relationship of this country with dengue has been long and intense. The 'rst recorded epidemic of clinically dengue-like illness occurred at Madras in 1780 and the dengue virus was isolated for the 'rst time almost simultaneously in Japan and Calcutta in 1943-1944," investigators in Lucknow, India report. "After the 'rst virologically proved epidemic of dengue fever along the East Coast of India in 1963-1964, it spread to allover the country.The 'rst full-blown epidemic of the severe form of the illness,the dengue haemorrhagic fever/dengue shock...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2009-03-17)
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