PRO/EDR> Far East Scarlet-like fever - Russia: Yersinia pseudotuberculosis

Respiratory Illness -- Russia
Far East scarlet-like fever (FESLF), a rare and poorly studied disease caused by _Yersinia pseudotuberculosis_, was 1st described in 1959, when an outbreak involving more than 300 hospitalized patients occurred in the city of Vladivostok, Russia, on the coast of the Pacific Ocean (1). Since the 1960s, multiple outbreaks and sporadic cases of FESLF, mainly associated with consumption of contaminated vegetables, have been reported from far eastern and northern parts of Russia and other countries

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