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Corporate Authors:
Communicable Disease Center (U.S.). Influenza Surveillance Unit.
Description:
"Clinically, confirmed cases of Far East strain influenza continue to be notably mild. Duration of illness in the teen-age and young adult groups, most heavily affected to date, has been about two-to-three days. Associated complications have been exceptionally uncommon. Secondary cases among contacts under normal circumstances have been rare, as noted below. Influenza-like illnesses among Grinnell delegates recently returned home have occurred in New York, Connecticut, Mississippi, Illinois, New Mexico, Indiana, Minnesota, and Colorado. Many cases undoubtedly have occurred in other areas. But few secondary cases have been reported from Grinnell or from other areas to which students returned. Conditions at present do not appear favorable for the explosive spread of influenza. At the International Boy Scout Jamboree no general outbreak has occurred despite the probable presence of influenza in several of the groups. Sporadic cases of febrile respiratory illness have occurred in each of the 38 sections of the camp. Fourteen hundred boys are tented in a section. During the first five days of the Jamboree, daily hospital admissions have remained at a nearly constant figure. Febrile respiratory disease has represented 60 to 80% of total admissions. If conditions relative to crowding do serve as a "provoking factor", the trip home for some of these 53,000 scouts may produce further localized outbreaks. An additional sporadic civilian case of Far East strain influenza from Cleveland, Ohio, is noted in the present report. This and other indications suggest a rather wide but still inapparent disbtribution of Far East strain influenza virus." - p. [1]
Content Notes:
"July 28, 1957."

"Notice: It is requested that the State health authorities report the occurrence of all outbreaks of influenza and influenza-like disease as promptly as possible to both the National Office of Vital Statistics, in Washington, D.C., and the Communicable Disease Center, Influenza Surveillance Unit, Atlanta, Georgia. Reports may be sent by teletype or telegram collect or may be telephoned collect." - p. 1

"For official use only; not for publication." - cover

"Information contained in this report is a summary of data reported to CDC by State Health Departments, Epidemic Intelligence Service Officers, collaborating influenza diagnostic laboratories, and other pertinent sources. Much if it is preliminary in nature and is primarily in nature and is primarily intended for those involved in influenza control activities. It is understood that the contents of these report will not be released to the press, except by the Office of the Surgeon General, Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. State Health Officers, of course, will judge the advisability of releasing any information from their own state." - cover


Subjects:
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Disease Outbreaks Influenza, Human/epidemiology Influenza A Virus, H2N2 Subtype
Series:
CDC influenza report ; no. 4
Document Type:
Newsletter
Genre:
Statistics
Place as Subject:
United States
Collection(s):
Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library collection
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