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Sweden hit by outbreak of rare parrot fever
Published: 24 Jul 2013 09:38 CET |s
A Swedish man who died of parrot fever in southern Sweden has transmitted the rare disease to at least eight people, with experts pointing out that human-to-human transmission is exceptionally uncommon.
After a 75-year-old man died in Kronoberg in March from parrot fever, the illness has spread among those who were near to him during his illness, including care personnel.
"This person was very sick and it was an extreme case. It's still hugely uncommon though, no one was infected third hand from the secondary cases we had," Arne Runehagen, doctor at the Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control (Smittskyddsinstitutet), told the TT news agency...
Sweden hit by outbreak of rare parrot fever
Published: 24 Jul 2013 09:38 CET |s
A Swedish man who died of parrot fever in southern Sweden has transmitted the rare disease to at least eight people, with experts pointing out that human-to-human transmission is exceptionally uncommon.
After a 75-year-old man died in Kronoberg in March from parrot fever, the illness has spread among those who were near to him during his illness, including care personnel.
"This person was very sick and it was an extreme case. It's still hugely uncommon though, no one was infected third hand from the secondary cases we had," Arne Runehagen, doctor at the Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control (Smittskyddsinstitutet), told the TT news agency...