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An Outbreak of Chickenpox in a Military Field Hospital-the Implications for Biological Warfare

Author(s) -

N C Hepburn,

Tim Brooks

Publication year - 1991

Publication title -

journal of the royal society of medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.38

H-Index - 81

eISSN - 1758-1095

pISSN - 0141-0768

DOI - 10.1177/014107689108401209

Subject(s) - chickenpox , outbreak , biological warfare , isolation (microbiology) , medicine , military medicine , virology , medical emergency , political science , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , law , virus

An outbreak of chickenpox with spread to patients and staff on the isolation ward of a British field hospital during the Gulf war is described. The implications for the design and operation of field hospital isolation units should transmissible biological warfare agents be encountered in any future conflict are discussed.

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