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Necrotising fasciitis: quantitative characteristics of the 1994 British media outbreak
1Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Aberdeen, Medical School, U.K.
The Journal of Infection
|January 1, 1995
Abstract:
A small number of cases of necrotising fasciitis in England caused by group A streptococci became the focus of a massive amount of media attention during May 1994. This report presents quantitative data on the interaction between journalists and a microbiologist during this period, and discusses possible explanations of the event.

