World Health Organization : Regioinal Office for Africa ; Year 1993 ; Africa Region, Communicable Diseases Control, Issue 52: Meningitis, Wiomylitis and Tetanus in Kenya, 1973-1975

By C. R. Jones, Dr.

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Title:	World Health Organization : Regioinal Office for Africa ; Year 1993 ; Africa Region, Communicable Diseases Control, Issue 52: Meningitis, Wiomylitis and Tetanus in Kenya, 1973-1975
Author:	C. R. Jones, Dr.
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Language:	English
Subject:	Health., Public health, Wellness programs
Collections:	Medical Library Collection, World Health Collection
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Publisher:	World Health Organization


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The first Hong Kong influenza virus to he isolated in the USA was obtained in Atlanta, Ga., on 2 September 1968 from a Marine Corps major who had just returned from Viet-Nam. The night before his departure from Viet-Nam he had shared a bunker with a friend who had just returned from Hong Kong. During that same week an outhreak of influenza occurred in a Marine Corps Drill lnstructors' School in San Diego, Calif. Of 49 students, 22 had an influenza-like illness, as did 9 contacts in 4 families. Hong Kong virus was isolated from 9 of the throat washings from 21 students. The source of the virus in this outhreak was not determ~ned. In mid-September 3 additional outbreaks among mi!itary personnel, traced to persons returning from South-East Asia, developed in Alaska and Hawail. On 6 September a letter was sent to all State health oEcers, epidemiologists, and laboratory directors asking their co-operation in monitoring the importation of the virus and in conduct~ngsu rveillance for iniluenza . The author was given the responsibility of collating the data submitted. Summaries of the many reports received were published regularly in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. This paper presents a consolidation of those data.

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