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Preliminary case report of fatal anthrax in an injecting drug user in North-Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, December 2009

Published:2010-01-14 Issue:2 Volume:15 Page:
ISSN:1560-7917
Container-title:Eurosurveillance
language:en
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Author:

Radun D¹,Bernard H¹,Altmann M²³¹,Schöneberg I¹,Bochat V⁴,van Treeck U⁵,Rippe R M⁶,Grunow R⁷,Elschner M⁸,Biederbick W⁹,Krause G¹

Affiliation:

1. Department for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

2. European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET), European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden

3. Postgraduate Training for Applied Epidemiology („PAE”, German Field Epidemiology Training Programme) at the Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

4. Local Health Department, Aachen, Germany

5. Federal State Health Department, North-Rhine-Westphalia, Duesseldorf, Germany

6. Federal Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Affairs North-Rhine-Westphalia, Duesseldorf, Germany

7. Center for Biological Security, Div. Highly Pathogenic Microorganisms , Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

8. Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Jena, Germany

9. Federal Information Centre for Biological Safety, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Abstract

A fatal case of anthrax occurred in an injecting drug user in Germany, in December 2009. A potential link to similar cases in Scotland in the same time period is currently under investigation.

Publisher

European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC)

Subject

Virology,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health,Epidemiology

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