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IASR Vol.20 No.12 December 1999

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Influenza, 1998/99 Season, Japan

• Analysis of influenza virus isolates in the 1998/99 season in Japan
  
• The excess mortality during the influenza-epidemic periods
  
• Influenza antibody prevalence in the autumn of 1999, Japan
  
• The first isolation of influenza virus type A(H3) in the 1999/2000 season, October 1999 - Shizuoka
  
• The first isolation of influenza virus type A(H1) in the 1999/2000 season, November 1999 - Sendai City
  
• An outbreak of waterborne EHEC O157, July 1999 - Nagano
  
• Vibrio parahaemolyticus O4:K68 food poisoning, July-August 1999 - Nara
  
• Salmonella Hadar food poisoning presumably due to boiled and seasoned hen's and quail's eggs, May 1999 - Saitama
  
• A case of infant botulism due to a strain possessing toxin genes both A and B, March 1999 - Hiroshima
  
• Foodborne botulism due to a vacuum-packed food, August 1999 - Chiba
  
• A fatal case of diphtheria diagnosed by antigen and gene detection, July 1999 - Gifu
  
• Isolation of echovirus 17 from meningitis cases, October 1999 - Niigata
  
• AIDS and HIV infections in Japan, September-October 1999

  
  

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