A past Haff disease outbreak associated with eating freshwater pomfret in South China
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A past Haff disease outbreak associated with eating freshwater pomfret in South China
BACKGROUND Haff disease is unexplained rhabdomyolysis caused by consumption of fishery products in the previous 24 h. It was first identified in Europe in 1924 but the condition is extremely rare in China. Here we describe a past outbreak of acute food borne muscle poisoning that occurred in Guangdong Province (South China) in 2009. METHODS The first full outbreak of Haff disease reported in ...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Public Health
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1471-2458
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-13-447