Outbreaks of lethal virus cyclical: study
A recently published study of a 2012 enterovirus outbreak that killed at least 54 Cambodian children has found that flare-ups of the virus tend to occur in a cyclical pattern, and that another one could be in store soon.
Released last Wednesday ahead of its January publication in the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Journal of Emerging Infectious Diseases, Seroepidemiology of Human Enterovirus 71 Infection among Children, Cambodia draws upon analysis of children’s blood samples collected from 2000-2011 to see how prevalent the virus was prior to 2012.
