Talk:1946-47 Iceland outbreak
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Is this a different outbreak? Or same as 1948-49 Akureyri outbreak?
Perhaps the way it is described on List of outbreaks is a typo?
--JenB (talk) 10:30, 8 July 2018 (PDT)
- I think they might be the same, a BMJ article lists them as related:
EPIDEMIC 6 1946–47 Iceland Sigurjonsson J Poliomyelitis and Akureyri
Disease. Mixed epidemics of poliomyelitis and a disease resembling poliomyelitis with the character of the Akureyri Disease. Nord Med 1959; 61: 174–82.
EPIDEMIC 7 1948–49 North Coast Towns, Iceland, Akureyri Nov/Dec 1948, Saudakrokur Dec 1948/Feb 1949, Isafordur Jan/April 1949 Sigurdsson B et al. A disease epidemic in Iceland simulating Poliomyelitis. Am J Hyg 1950; 52: 222–38.
[two related papers]1
- The 1946-47 publication was in Danish.
- [Poliomyelitis & Akureyri disease; differentiation of poliomyelitis from poliomyelitis-like disease with characteristics of Akuteyri disease.]
- SIGURJONSSON J Nordisk Medicin, 01 Jan 1959, 61(5):174-177 Language:dan
- PMID: 13623058
- ~Njt (talk) 15:28, April 30, 2020 (EDT)
- Update - they are definitely different cases, as described here in the Akureyri outbreak article, which refers to ref (5) on the earlier outbreak. It's co-author is Johann Sigurjonsson, who described the previous outbreak. ~Njt (talk) 16:17, April 30, 2020 (EDT)
