Abstract
Epidemiological factors such as:
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Unusual features
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Distribution in the population — 1976 outbreak of Legionnaire’s Disease in Philadelphia which affected a group of ex-soldiers
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Geographic distribution — Sverdlovsk 1979
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Location may be in the vicinity of a military facility — Sverdlovsk 1979, New Mexico 1993
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Shows an explosive start
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Clinical features which differ from usual — pulmonary route of infection where that is not the natural route
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Appearance of a vector-borne disease outside the normal geographic range of the vector
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Steyn, B.P. (2002). Investigations of Suspicious Outbreaks. In: Dando, M.R., Klement, C., Negut, M., Pearson, G.S. (eds) Maximizing the Security and Development Benefits from the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention. NATO Science Series, vol 36. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0472-5_9
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