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Reanalysis of the anthrax epidemic in Rhodesia, 1978–1984

In the mid-1980s, the largest epidemic of anthrax of the last 200 years was documented in a little known series of studies by Davies in The Central African Journal of Medicine. This epidemic involved thousands of cattle and 10,738 human cases with 200 fatalities in Rhodesia during the Counterinsurge...

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Autores principales: Wilson, James M., Brediger, Walter, Albright, Thomas P., Smith-Gagen, Julie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5111893/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27867766
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2686
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description In the mid-1980s, the largest epidemic of anthrax of the last 200 years was documented in a little known series of studies by Davies in The Central African Journal of Medicine. This epidemic involved thousands of cattle and 10,738 human cases with 200 fatalities in Rhodesia during the Counterinsurgency. Grossly unusual epidemiological features were noted that, to this day, have not been definitively explained. This study performed a historical reanalysis of the data to reveal an estimated geographic involvement of 245,750 km(2), with 171,990 cattle and 17,199 human cases. Here we present the first documented geotemporal visualization of the human anthrax epidemic.
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spelling pubmed-51118932016-11-18 Reanalysis of the anthrax epidemic in Rhodesia, 1978–1984 Wilson, James M. Brediger, Walter Albright, Thomas P. Smith-Gagen, Julie PeerJ Epidemiology In the mid-1980s, the largest epidemic of anthrax of the last 200 years was documented in a little known series of studies by Davies in The Central African Journal of Medicine. This epidemic involved thousands of cattle and 10,738 human cases with 200 fatalities in Rhodesia during the Counterinsurgency. Grossly unusual epidemiological features were noted that, to this day, have not been definitively explained. This study performed a historical reanalysis of the data to reveal an estimated geographic involvement of 245,750 km(2), with 171,990 cattle and 17,199 human cases. Here we present the first documented geotemporal visualization of the human anthrax epidemic. PeerJ Inc. 2016-11-10 /pmc/articles/PMC5111893/ /pubmed/27867766 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2686 Text en © 2016 Wilson et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
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title_short Reanalysis of the anthrax epidemic in Rhodesia, 1978–1984
title_sort reanalysis of the anthrax epidemic in rhodesia, 1978–1984
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5111893/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27867766
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2686
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