Outbreak of mass sociogenic illness in a school feeding program in northwest Bangladesh, 2010.

BACKGROUND:In 2010, an acute illness outbreak was reported in school students eating high-energy biscuits supplied by the school feeding programme in northwest Bangladesh. We investigated this outbreak to describe the illness in terms of person, place and time, develop the timeline of events, and de...

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Main Authors: Farhana Haque, Subodh Kumar Kundu, Md Saiful Islam, S M Murshid Hasan, Asma Khatun, Partha Sarathi Gope, Zahid Hayat Mahmud, A S M Alamgir, M Sirajul Islam, Mahmudur Rahman, Stephen P Luby
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3828262?pdf=render