On an Epidemic of Fever caused by Infected Milk

Severe OHSS: An 'epidemic' caused by doctors.

Assisted reproductive techniques (ART) are elective procedures in otherwise healthy patients. Therefore any complication occurring during treatment is iatrogenic. Sadly, the most serious and potentially life threatening complication, the ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS) still frequently occurs. Abramov et al. (1999) report an increase in the incidence of OHSS and state that we are facin...

An Epidemic of Scarlet Fever Spread by Ice Cream.*

Ice cream is seldom mentioned in the literature as a vehicle for the transmission of scarlet fever. Typhoid fever outbreaks from this source are not uncommon, but we have been able to find only one scarlet fever epidemic in which ice cream was regarded as a plausible causative agent. This outbreak is mentioned by Chapin (1). It was reported by Buchanan (2), and took place in South Kensington, E...

An epidemic of extrinsic allergic alveolitis caused by tap water.

In an industrial community. Linnavuori. (population 1000) over 100 people developed fever, cough, and dyspnoea 3 to 6 hours after sauna or bathing. Thisepidemic began in August of 1978 and ended gradually in December. The water source of the community was a small (0 4 km^) lake; in November it was found thai the water was contaminated with several bacteria, fungi, and algae. Precipitating antib...

An epidemic of respiratory disease caused by Mycoplasma pneumoniae.

On an Epidemic of Dengue Fever in Fiji in 1885

In May of the year 1885 a contagious disease, hitherto unknown in Fiji, made its appearance among the European population of the colony, continued active for some ten months, and then disappeared. Having once obtained a footing, so to speak, it attacked eventually all the white settlers, men, women, and children, and spread, though somewhat slowly, to the coloured races in the islands, viz., Fi...