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Published Date: 2011-09-27 11:50:20
Subject: PRO> Malaria, P. vivax - Greece (05): autochthonous, comment
Archive Number: 20110927.2928

MALARIA, P. VIVAX - GREECE (05): AUTOCHTHONOUS, COMMENT
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Date: Mon 26 Sep 2011
From: Corneliu Petru Popescu <cornel160@yahoo.com> [edited]

Further information concerning the 2nd patient diagnosed in Romania
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The 2nd patient had symptoms for 2 months before admission but did not
seek medical care before being back in Romania. He worked picking
oranges in Greece without insurance.

He told us that many people from other countries, especially Pakistan,
also worked on the farms.

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Corneliu Petru Popescu
Dr V Babes Clinical Hospital of Infectious and Tropical Diseases
Bucharest Romania
<cornel160@yahoo.com>

[The new information kindly provided by Dr Corneliu Popescu from
Bucharest, supports our previous hypothesis, that the cases were
infections transmitted from immigrants from _P. vivax_ endemic
countries. - Mod.EP]

[A HealthMap/ProMED-mail interactive map of Greece can be seen at
http://healthmap.org/r/1gW_. - Sr.Tech.Ed.MJ]

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