What is it about?
Since 2000 there have been outbreaks of an infectious agent across the UK at roughly 2-year intervals. This study looked at the small-area spread of the agent in NE Essex and the resulting increase in medical admissions. GP surgeries may have unknowingly acted as loci to spread this agent.
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Why is it important?
This is a new type of infectious outbreak which needs to be understood. The mode of action appears to be via immune manipulation rather than overt infection.
Perspectives
This is one of a number of small-area studies looking at the spread of a new type of infectious agent which leads to increased deaths and medical admissions. See: http://www.hcaf.biz/2010/Publications_Full.pdf
Dr Rodney P Jones
Healthcare Analysis & Forecasting
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This page is a summary of: Infectious-like spread of an agent leading to increased medical hospital admission in the North East Essex area of the East of England, Fractal Geometry and Nonlinear Analysis in Medicine and Biology, January 2016, Open Access Text Pvt, Ltd.,
DOI: 10.15761/fgnamb.1000117.
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