Friday, 28 April 2017

PRO/EDR> Diphtheria - New Zealand: (OT) NOT, corr

Diphtheria -- New Zealand
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Date: Fri 28 Apr 2017
From: Mark Bosson [edited]

Not sure if your scanning system was responsible for picking up the alert, but the outbreak I think is based on a piece that is a news item focused on the past -- it identifies what was happening 100 years ago in Otago!
Stirling is also tiny, only about 300 inhabitants, although the SE Otago area may have more than 200 000 people.
Health stats indicate, "Since 1979, there have only been 4 confirmed diphtheria cases in New

Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://bit.ly/2qgyLn3

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