conclusions immediate diagnosis based on careful history and physical examination are essential for management of botulism. people should be notified about proper food handling and preparation of traditional homemade foods. patients and methods during an outbreak, 10 members of a family referred to the hospital because of food poisoning. all patients had a history of consumption of doogh, a tra...

conclusions health disobedience and neglect of local residents were the causes of water pollution that was controlled with preventional measures, with performing daily chlorination of brick kilns drinking water and diarrheal disease treatment of the patients. results a total of 120 workers were studied (60 cases and 60 controls) who were the same from age and sex point of view. clinical signs o...

background several hundred thousand people are infected with vibrio cholera every year worldwide, with a case fatality rate over 2%. periodic cholera outbreaks are of important health issues in iran, especially in sistan and baluchistan province. objectives in this study, we evaluated cholera out breaks and related factors, during 2010-2013, to improve controlling the disease in this province. ...

introduction crimean-congo hemorrhagic fever (cchf) is an acute viral zoonotic disease, which is endemic in vast geographic areas including the middle east. the causative agent, crimean-congo hemorrhagic fever virus (cchfv), is a nairovirus, which is mainly transmitted to human from infected hard ticks and viremic livestock. discussion given that viremic livestock are the main source of cchf ou...

epidemics of methanol poisoning happen across the globe. there are prognostic factors associated with morbidity or mortality from methanol poisoning. recently we have compared retrospective observational case series of methanol-poisoned patients from norway (1979 and 2002-2005), estonia (2001) and tunisia (2003/2004), and patients from two different centers in iran (teheran 2004-2009 and mashha...

background: world health organization (who) reported continuous increase of alcohol consumption in southeast asian region. on social and religious ground, open alcohol consumption is banned in bangladesh though incidence of acute methanol intoxication is seriously increasing. unfortunately, apart from who report (2004) there is no available epidemiological and clinical data in bangladesh. this ...

Background: The outbreaks of foodborne diseases is a major health problem and occur daily in all countries, from the most to the least developed. This study is the first report of foodborne outbreaks in Iran that carried out from 2006 to 2011. Methods:  A retrospective, longitudinal study carried out using foodborne disease national surveillance system data from 2006-2011, which have been re...