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| | Investigation of an E. coli O157:H7 outbreak in Brooks, Alberta, June-July 2002: the role of occult cases in the spread ... |
 | | INVESTIGATION OF AN A 3-year-old boy residing in Brooks, Alberta (population of 12,000), became ill on 4 June, 2002, with bloody diarrhea, fever, and vomiting. |
 | | Alberta has usually had a higher incidence than the national average (4.0 to 13.4/100,000), and the rates of E. |
 | | Guidelines could include keeping logs of symptoms or illness among children, implementing rapid control measures in a potential outbreak, asking parents about their children's symptoms on a regular basis, excluding symptomatic and shedding children from attending daycare centres, and the early temporary closing of a centre when an outbreak is suspected. |
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