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MUMPS - THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA (02)
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[The original posting erroneous had the name of the country as Macedonia. This was corrected to reflect the United Nations accepted name for the country: The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. ProMED-mail regrets any inconveniences created by this error. - Mod.MPP]
Date: Sun 1 Feb 2009
From: Steve Berger <mberger@post.tau.ac.il>
The recent outbreak illustrates the fact that Macedonia has reported
the highest rates of mumps in this region for much of the past 3
decades. In the following graph, I've included United States' mumps
rates for comparison; see:
<http://exhibit.gideononline.com/mumps-macedonia.png>.
Source: GIDEON database
<http://www.gideononline.com/blog/2009/01/31/mumps-in-macedonia/>.
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Communicated by:
Professor Steve Berger
Geographic Medicine
Tel Aviv Medical Center
<mberger@post.tau.ac.il>
[ProMED-mail thanks Professor Berger for extracting this information
from the Gideon Database. - Mod.CP]
[see also:
Mumps - Macedonia 20090131.0439]
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