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L Haddy

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PubMed1984

Outbreak of itching and rash. Epidemic hysteria in an elementary school.

Fifty-seven of 159 rural elementary school students had an explosive spread of pruritus and rash--a rarely described manifestation of epidemic hysteria. In a sample of 13 children (23%), each child examined had irregular, macular, erythematous lesions that were excoriated and actively changed during examination. Rash occurred only at sites readily accessible to hands. The symptoms disappeared promptly when the children left school and recurred each morning when they returned. There were no secondary family cases in sample children. School-wide attack rates were higher in girls and younger children. The outbreak resolved after two to three weeks, with identification of its nature and resumption of normal activities. Academic stresses were circumstantially linked to the outbreak.

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The West Virginia Cancer Registry: historical development and preliminary results.

This article is designed to provide the medical community with an overview of the West Virginia Cancer Registry (WVCR), a population-based registry, which was established in 1993 with both federal and state funding. The WVCR is managed through the Bureau for Public Health's Division of Surveillance and Disease Control in the Office of Epidemiology and Health Promotion, and all data is confidential. The staff of the WVCR consists of a director, a cancer data supervisor, two abstractors, a secretary, and a voluntary, 13-member Cancer Advisory Committee. The initial findings of the WVCR have shown that for each 100,000 West Virginia women, 90.1 were discovered with invasive breast cancer in 1992, an increase from 86.8 in 1991. The invasive cervical cancer rate increased from 10.8 to 12.9 during this same time period. In addition, the age-adjusted death rate for cervical cancer rose from 3.6 cases per 100,000 women in 1991 to 3.8 in 1992. However, the age-adjusted death rate for breast cancer fell to 24.7 per 100,000 women in 1992, compared to 25.5 in 1991.

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