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

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Haque, Farhana ^a,b   Kundu, Subodh Kumar ^b   Islam, Md Saiful ^a   Hasan, S M Murshid ^a   Khatun, Asma ^b   Gope, Partha Sarathi ^c   Mahmud, Zahid Hayat ^c   Alamgir, A S M ^b   Islam, M Sirajul ^c   Rahman, Mahmudur ^b   Luby, Stephen P ^a,d  

^a Icddr B   (Bangladesh)

^b Institute of Epidemiology Disease Control and Research IEDCR   (Bangladesh)

^c Emerging Diseases and Immunobiology   (Bangladesh)

^d CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANGLADESH; CHILD; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYSTERIA; MALE; MASS BEHAVIOR; PSYCHOLOGY; SCHOOL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STUDENT;

BANGLADESH; CHILD; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTERIA; MALE; MASS BEHAVIOR; SCHOOLS; STUDENTS;

EID: 84893572490     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0080420     Document Type: Article

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