Puvalluttuq: An Epidemic of Tuberculosis at Eskimo Point, Northwest Territories
An explosive epidemic of tuberculosis in a small isolated settlement is described. This outbreak, in a population of 329 Eskimos and 16 whites, produced 80 cases of active tuberculosis, involving 55% of all the house-holds. Forty-five of these patients were children under 10 years of age and only fi...
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1964
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| Online Access: | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1927161 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14144539 |
| Summary: | An explosive epidemic of tuberculosis in a small isolated settlement is described. This outbreak, in a population of 329 Eskimos and 16 whites, produced 80 cases of active tuberculosis, involving 55% of all the house-holds. Forty-five of these patients were children under 10 years of age and only five were persons over 30. These patients probably were infected by one highly infectious individual. |
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