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Outbreak of Mass Sociogenic Illness in a School Feeding Program in Northwest Bangladesh, 2010
BACKGROUND In 2010, an acute illness outbreak was reported in school students eating high-energy biscuits supplied by the school feeding programme in northwest Bangladesh. We investigated this outbreak to describe the illness in terms of person, place and time, develop the timeline of events, and determine the cause and community perceptions regarding the outbreak. METHODS We defined case-pat...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Medical Association Journal
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0820-3946,1488-2329
DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.045027