A Note on a Circumscribed Outbreak of a Typhus-Like Fever in Muzaffargarh District, South-Western Punjab
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1937. Public Health, Punjab, in Ma* orted from two The outbreak had been 1fl and Salehwali. adjoining villages, Yusufwa ^ consisted These, like other villages m ^_Walled huts of a few isolated hamlets o ounded by an with thatched roofs and weres c0vered with extensive area of junsj? noDulation of bot brushwood and scrub. The 1 individuals, the villages consisted of abou icUitural purmost of whom were engaged which had suits. At Yusufwala, sev?n. _m the disease or either completely recovered
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