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KABUL, Afghanistan – In the biggest battle of the Afghan winter, NATO forces say they killed or severely wounded 130 insurgents who crossed over from Pakistan in a bold raid that underscored the dangers the lawless frontier poses for Western troops battling the Taliban.
Across the border, the Pakistan military, acting on intelligence provided by the U.S.-led coalition, attacked supply trucks used by suspected insurgents for cross-border attacks, spokesman Maj. Gen. Shaukat Sultan said.
It was the Pakistan's army first reported attack in the North Waziristan tribal region since a controversial September peace deal between the government and pro-Taliban militants that critics say has provided a sanctuary for insurgents. Sultan said it wasn't clear if any militants were killed in the Pakistani assault.
NATO tracked the militants through air surveillance while the fighters were still in Pakistan. Once they crossed over, NATO and Afghan soldiers attacked the two separate groups with groundfire and airstrikes during a nine-hour engagement that began Wednesday evening.
Gen. Murad Ali, the Afghan army regional deputy corps commander, said the insurgents had traveled into Paktika province with several trucks of ammunition. Lt. Col. Paul Fitzpatrick, a U.S. military spokesman, said it was likely the fighters were going to launch an immediate attack given the size of their group.
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Fitzpatrick said late Thursday that 130 fighters were killed or wounded. NATO initially said in a statement that as many as 150 fighters had been killed. The Afghan Ministry of Defense estimated the toll at 80 dead.
It was not clear why there was such a disparity in the estimates. As is common with violence in Afghanistan, independent confirmation of the death toll at the remote battle site was not immediately possible.
Fitzpatrick said commanders lowered the estimate during the day after further evaluating reports from observers made at nighttime in difficult conditions.
"Obviously people aren't going through a turnstile and doing a head count," he said.
NATO spokesman Maj. Dominic Whyte said air and ground assets with imaging capabilities were used to estimate the number killed. He said the estimate was "pretty accurate" but not likely the exact figure.
In early December NATO said it had killed 70-80 fighters in Helmand province but days later said that only seven to eight were killed.
Dr. Muhammad Hanif, who claims to speak for the Taliban, said in a text message to an Associated Press reporter in Pakistan that the figure of 150 dead was "a complete lie."
"The Americans want to boost morale of their troops while making such claims," the message read.
Taliban militants last year launched a record number of attacks, and an estimated 4,000 people died in insurgency-related violence, the bloodiest year since the U.S.-led coalition ousted the Taliban regime in late 2001.
In Helmand province, meanwhile, NATO airstrikes on a suspected Taliban compound Thursday killed 16 suspected militants and 13 people kidnapped or captured and being held by the Taliban, said Helmand provincial police chief Ghulam Nabi Malakhail. A civilian home was damaged and an unknown number of civilians wounded in the strike, he said.
The fight in the Bermel district of Paktika province is the first major engagement of 2007 and appeared to be the largest battle since a multi-day operation killed more than 500 Taliban fighters in the Panjwayi district of Kandahar province in September.
Whyte said NATO forces identified the group of fighters while they were still in Pakistan. Fitzpatrick said between 150 and 200 fighters moving in two groups crossed over the border.
The large group of fighters moving in an area where the Pakistan military has several checkpoints would raise questions about the Pakistan military's effectiveness in stopping militant activity.
But the U.S. assistant secretary of state for South and Central Asia, Richard Boucher, on Thursday praised Pakistan's commitment to fighting terrorism and said the country remains an important U.S. ally.
"Pakistan does not want to see Al Qaeda, Taliban operating in Pakistan and they are taking a series of steps ... to try to control those (border) areas better and we are supporting that," Boucher told reporters in Kabul.
Pakistani army spokesman Sultan said Pakistan's attack on Wednesday night, using artillery and mortars, demonstrated how it could act swiftly and effectively if it was given "real-time" intelligence on cross-border militancy.
"We don't deny that some people are coming from this side. That's why we seek intelligence in real time. We are keen to stop it," he said.
The September peace deal in North Waziristan, which lies opposite Afghanistan's Paktika province, ended bitter fighting between pro-Taliban militants and the Pakistani army. But U.S. and NATO military officials have voiced concern that cross-border attacks into Afghanistan the deal was meant to stop have only escalated, and pro-Taliban elements have gained more power.
In the southern province of Kandahar, meanwhile, thousands of mainly ethnic-Pashtun tribesmen pelted stones at a Pakistan border post and chanted "Death to Pakistan's links to the Taliban" during a rally to condemn new border measures.
The protest was held in the Afghan border town of Waish, across from the Pakistani town of Chaman near where Pakistan opened its first biometrics system to screen travelers as a measure against the cross-border movement of militants.
Pakistan has also announced plans to build a fence and plant land mines at selected places along the border, a proposed measure opposed by Afghanistan.
Afghan officials have repeatedly said that leaders from their country's insurgent Taliban militia are hiding in Pakistan and stage attacks against Afghanistan's U.S.-backed government from there. Pakistan denies the Afghan charge.
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With already over a dozen screen and stage adaptations over the years, Annie finds itself on the streets of modern-day New York in Will Gluck's updated 2014 version.
While Gluck has the eponymous character living in foster home – as a pose to an orphanage – the set-up is largely unchanged; Annie (Wallis) longs to be reunited with her parents, before a PR opportunity for business mogul, Will Stacks (Foxx), sees our heroine invited to the billionaire recluse's lavish home for a week.
As the third screen adaptation of the beloved musical – which started life as a comic strip – Annie has little to offer in the way of innovation and even its updated backdrop is used superficially, often feeling cheesy, sentimental and just plain forced.
Following unanimous acclaim and an Oscar nomination for 2012 indie-hit, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Wallis displays the same magnetic energy and charm, while Jamie Foxx does Jamie Foxx in the role of Will Stacks – which is, by no means, a bad thing. It's not often that a performance affects a film so negatively, but serial over-actor, Cameron Diaz, takes her melodramatic antics to a whole new level and is over-the-top in the most grotesque of ways as Annie's negligent and terminally angry foster-mother.
Surprisingly numb and riddled with cutesy clichés, even the musical pieces suffer from some not-so-subtle auto-tune tweaks. Despite the novelty of the updated setting, the whole thing s utterly unsatisfying; this is nothing short of a terribly mishandled disaster of a film that manages to negate everything and anything that made Annie a stage classic.
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Dunedin woman Grace Sullivan died in the city's hospital on September 19, 2000.
She was operated on in May by Associate Professor Magnus Thorn to treat a fistula, and had a follow-up operation on July 4 after becoming increasingly unwell.
In his findings, issued today, Otago Southland coroner David Crerar noted Gary Sullivan - Grace Sullivan's son - said he and his mother had been told surgery was ''likely to be 99.9 per cent effective''.
The coroner said all surgery was a risk, but risks had to be balanced against rewards. If successful, the surgery would have given Grace Sullivan a better quality of life, and he was satisfied the risks of surgery had been identified.
''Although there may have been some suboptimal technique, it cannot be demonstrated that this was necessarily directly related to the circumstances of the death. In fact, the surgery of July 4, 2010 revealed complications which were unable to be recognised, or known, earlier.''
Grace Sullivan suffered chronic illnesses which increased the risk of surgery, the coroner said. Her death was caused by sepsis, multi-organ failure and heart disease.
''Although Southern District Health Board and Professor Thorn may have done better for Grace Sullivan, I have no evidence upon which to base a finding that either fell substantially below normal and appropriate standards of care.''
The coroner noted Gary Sullivan's complaints about the DHB's failures in communicating with him.
The coroner said communication issues did not fall under his remit of establishing a cause of death, but hoped the DHB would learn from the incident and ensure such issues did not recur.
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1. Department of Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Stockholm County Council, Sweden
2. Department of Medicine Solna, Infectious Disease Unit, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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Citation style for this article: Hergens M, Nederby Öhd J, Alm E, Askling HH, Helgesson S, Insulander M, Lagerqvist N, Svenungsson B, Tihane M, Tolfvenstam T, Follin P. Investigation of a food-borne outbreak of gastroenteritis in a school canteen revealed a variant of sapovirus genogroup V not detected by standard PCR, Sollentuna, Sweden, 2016. Euro Surveill. 2017;22(22):pii=30543. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2017.22.22.30543
A food-borne outbreak of gastroenteritis with more than 650 suspected cases occurred in April 2016 in Sollentuna, Sweden. It originated in a school kitchen serving a total of 2,700 meals daily. Initial microbiological testing (for Campylobacter, Salmonella, Shigella, Yersinia, Giardia, Cryptosporidium, Entamoeba histolytica, adeno-, astro-, noro-, rota- and sapovirus) of stool samples from 15 symptomatic cases was negative, despite a clinical presentation suggestive of calicivirus. Analyses of the findings from both the Sollentuna municipality environmental team and a web-based questionnaire suggested that the source of the outbreak was the salad buffet served on 20 April, although no specific food item could be identified. Subsequent electron microscopic examination of stool samples followed by whole genome sequencing revealed a variant of sapovirus genogroup V. The virus was not detected using standard PCR screening. This paper describes the epidemiological outbreak investigation and findings leading to the discovery.
Sapovirus causes acute gastroenteritis in humans and belongs to the Caliciviridae family, along with norovirus and three other genera [1]. Since the virus was first described in 1976, it has been studied and sapoviruses pathogenic to humans are currently classified into four genogroups [1]. Sapovirus has a worldwide distribution and is a common cause of sporadic gastroenteritis [2-4]. Outbreaks may occur in different settings throughout the year, although the reported outbreaks are fewer than for norovirus. Prevalence is highly variable without any apparent geographical pattern. Prevalence and genotype distribution have shifted over time [5]. Food-borne transmission has been suspected on several occasions [6-8]. A recent summary and analysis of reported food-borne outbreaks in the European Union in 2011 estimated that viruses were the cause in 13% of those outbreaks in which a causative agent was verified or where such outbreaks were associated with sufficient solid data to be categorised as viral outbreaks supported by strong evidence; a majority of these (98%) were caused by the Caliciviridae family, specifically noroviruses [9].
On the weekend of 22–24 April 2016, a suspected outbreak of gastroenteritis among students and teachers at four schools in Sollentuna, Sweden, was reported to the municipality of Sollentuna. The initial report stated that more than 50 students and teachers were ill. The Sollentuna municipality environmental team notified the Department of Communicable Disease Control and Prevention in Stockholm on 25 April. All schools in Sollentuna, as well as some outside the municipality, received food from the same central school kitchen, based in one of the affected schools. An outbreak control team was set up to investigate the magnitude of the outbreak and to identify the causative agent of the gastroenteritis in order to localise the source of the outbreak. This report describes the epidemiological investigation and findings, as well as the implemented control measures.
The outbreak control team included representatives from the Department of Communicable Disease Control and Prevention in Stockholm and the Sollentuna municipality environmental team. The Public Health Agency of Sweden and the National Food Agency were responsible for the microbiological analyses undertaken during the late phase of the outbreak investigation.
Early on, the investigation revealed that the central kitchen served 2,700 meals per day at 21 schools and preschools, suggesting that a considerably higher proportion of schools in the Stockholm area could have been exposed than was initially thought. The age of students at the 21 schools and preschools ranged from 1 to 15 years.
In order to estimate the magnitude of the outbreak, the principals at the school distributed a web-based questionnaire that was provided by the Department of Communicable Disease Control and Prevention in Stockholm to students' parents, guardians and teachers. Because quick and early distribution was a priority, only the students and teachers at the four schools were included that had initially reported the outbreak to the Sollentuna municipality environmental team. Approximately 1,000 students (6–15 years of age) and 160 teachers attended these four schools, which was considered a sufficient number for meaningful analysis. The questionnaire was distributed by email on the morning of 26 April with a 7-day submission deadline. In addition, to obtain a more complete picture of the magnitude of the outbreak, the Sollentuna municipality environmental team requested that the remaining 17 schools served by the central kitchen estimated the number of students and personnel with gastroenteritis symptoms (Figure 1). Data pertaining to whether the schools received both salad buffet and warm meals were also gathered.
Communication and important moments in the outbreak investigation, food-borne gastroenteritis outbreak, Sollentuna, Sweden, April 2016 (n = 656)
Purple fields: outbreak background information; blue fields: investigation by the Department of Communicable Disease Control and Prevention; yellow fields: investigation by the Sollentuna municipality environmental team. Open arrows: information received by the Sollentuna municipality environmental team; filled arrows: response measures including simultaneously (i) stool sampling for microbial analysis, (ii) distribution of questionnaires and (iii) information gathering as a basis for case finding among individuals who had consumed food prepared in a central school kitchen in Sollentuna municipality, Stockholm, Sweden in April 2016. A total of 656 gastroenteritis cases were reported.
The Sollentuna municipality environmental team was responsible for the environmental investigation, including inspection of the kitchen, review of hygienic procedures and staff hygiene, procedures for safe handling of raw meat, as well as procedures for heating and cooling food. Interviews were conducted with kitchen personnel. Food samples were taken and when possible, attempts were made to trace them back to the source. Stool samples for microbiological analysis were obtained from 15 people with symptoms of gastroenteritis.
Initial reports indicated that sporadic cases were reported as early as on 21 April; therefore, we decided to ask about manifestation of symptoms after 20 April. For the purposes of our analytical investigation, a case of gastroenteritis was defined as someone who gave a positive response to the question 'Have you had symptoms of gastroenteritis after 20 April' among students and teachers at any of the four schools that had first notified Sollentuna municipality about the outbreak.
Secondary cases of gastroenteritis were defined as individuals who did not attend any of these four schools, but belonged to a household where a primary case of gastroenteritis was identified as defined above, and who presented with symptoms of gastroenteritis beginning within 72 hours of the primary case.
The case definition of gastroenteritis from the other 17 schools, as reviewed by the Sollentuna municipality environmental team, was based on absences due to gastroenteritis after 22 April self-reported to administrative personnel at these schools.
The web-based questionnaire included questions about whether the respondents were teachers or students and about their grade level. Also included was information on clinical manifestations, onset and duration of symptoms, as well as questions regarding potential secondary cases. Early telephone interviews with the parents/guardians of 15 of the sick individuals showed onset of symptoms 12–36 hours after the most recent consumption of food at school, high rates of nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea, as well as short (1–2 days) duration of symptoms, which together suggest that the gastroenteritis was probably caused by a virus rather than bacteria, parasites or toxins. The incubation period for the most common viral gastrointestinal illnesses is short, usually 1–2 days [10]. Given the clinical picture and the short incubation period for the most likely viral agents, the form included detailed questions about what food items were consumed at lunch on 20–22 April (assuming a probable incubation period of 1–2 days).
We analysed the distribution of cases by time of onset of symptoms and demographic characteristics, as well as attack rates and unadjusted risk ratios (RR) of gastroenteritis in relation to consumption of each food item. Unadjusted RR were calculated using Episheet [11].
Stool samples were collected for analysis from 15 individuals who reported symptoms of gastroenteritis. For logistical reasons, samples were sent to either of two separate clinical microbiological laboratories in Stockholm.
All 15 samples were cultured for Salmonella, Shigella, Campylobacter and Yersinia. Because two samples were not available in sufficient quantity, only 13 samples were analysed using the commercially available qPCR geneXpert (Cepheid, Sunnyvale, United States) proprietary platform (adeno-, astro-, noro-, rota- and sapovirus) for seven of the samples and a sapovirus real-time RT-PCR [12] for six of the samples. Eight samples were analysed by microscopy with appropriate staining to search for parasites.
Only six samples were large enough for further analysis by the Public Health Agency of Sweden using electron microscopy, RT-PCR, real-time RT-PCR and whole genome sequencing (WGS). The RT-PCR was performed using the following primers for sapovirus: forward primers CTCGCCACCTACRAWGCBTGGTT, GCCACCTACGAATCCTGGTTCAT, and CAATTGCATGYTACAACAGCTGGTACAT, and reverse primers CGCGCCTCCATRCTACCACCCCA, CGGRCYTCAAAVSTACCNCCCCA, and TGAGACYGTGACTCTRATRTCCATTGC. The real-time RT-PCR was modified from [12]: forward primers GAYCAGGCYCTCGCYACCTAC, TTGGCCCTCGCCACCTAC, and TTTGAACAAGCTGTGGCRTGCTAC, reverse primer NNCCCTCCATYTCAAACACTA and probes FAM-CTGTACCRCCTATGAACCA-MGB and FAM-CTGYACCACCTATRAACCA-MGB.
Inspectors from the Sollentuna municipality environmental team conducted a post-outbreak inspection of the central kitchen on 25 April. Physical inspection and personnel interviews were carried out to assess seven areas: infrastructure and procedures, equipment and facilities, food products and packaging, safe handling and storage, cleaning procedures, compliance with temperature protocols, as well as personal hygiene and food traceability.
Samples were obtained from saved main courses, as well as from batches of frozen vegetables and herbs served on 20–22 April. Samples were also obtained from batches of salad that were delivered to the central kitchen after the outbreak. No salad from delivery before the outbreak was available. All food samples were initially stored at −26 oC by the Sollentuna municipality environmental team and subsequently sent to the National Food Agency for analysis once results from the human samples became available.
The web-based questionnaire was sent to ca 1,160 people and since all questions were voluntary, the number of responses to each question varied. Of the 682 people (59%) who responded to the question regarding symptoms of gastroenteritis after 20 April, 674 also answered the question concerning sex (363 female and 311 male) and of these, 265 people (39%) reported symptoms of gastroenteritis. Among this latter group, 260 indicated their sex (144 female and 116 male). The attack rate among teachers was 54% (65 of 121), while in students it was 36% (198 of 553). For eight people, information regarding teacher/student status was lacking. The attack rate did not differ significantly between men and women, with 37% (116/311) and 40% (144/360), respectively. Information regarding sex was missing for 11 people. Among all self-reported cases of gastroenteritis, only 10 respondents indicated that they had not eaten in the canteen. Figure 2 shows the distribution of cases by date of onset of gastroenteritis symptoms; cases started to occur on 21 April, followed by a peak on 22 April. Among these cases, 10% (27/281) were reported as secondary cases.
Epidemic curve of onset of gastroenteritis symptoms among students and teachers at four schools and secondary cases, Sollentuna, Sweden, April 2016 (n = 281)
The summary of the investigation conducted by the Sollentuna municipality environmental team on 25 April showed that 123 teachers and 268 students from the 17 schools not included in the initial investigation had reported symptoms of gastroenteritis (see Table 1). With the addition of these 391 cases, more than 650 people reportedly had gastroenteritis symptoms associated with the outbreak overall.
GE: gastroenteritis; NA: not available.
a Self-reported cases according to the school principals; these cases were not included in further analytical investigation since the individuals involved did not receive the web-based questionnaire.
According to the questionnaires, the most prevalent clinical symptoms were nausea (246/265; 93%), abdominal pain (220/265; 83%), vomiting (183/265; 69%), diarrhoea (133/265; 50%) and fever (127/265; 48%). Duration of these symptoms varied somewhat in that vomiting was of shorter duration than diarrhoea (data not shown). Stratifying symptoms by age (6–9 years: n = 65; 10–12 years: n = 54; 13–15 years: n = 69; teachers: n = 66) showed that nausea, diarrhoea and especially fever were more commonly reported by the older age groups (Figure 3). To our knowledge none of the reported cases required hospital admission.
Proportion of predominant gastroenteritis symptoms in different age groups among students and teachers at four schools, Sollentuna, Sweden, April 2016 (n = 254)
The figure does not include secondary cases.
The Sollentuna municipality environmental team found (Table 1) that cases of gastroenteritis were reported only from the 14 schools and preschools that received both the main course and the salad buffet, whereas no cases of gastroenteritis were reported from the three schools that did not receive the salad buffet. Analysis of the questionnaires found no specific food item to be associated with confirmed case status. However, consumption of mixed salad, mixed beans or green beans at lunch on 20 April was associated with confirmed case status, with RR of 2.0 (95% confidence interval (CI): 1.6–2.6), 2.1 (95% CI: 1.6–2.6) and 2.0 (95% CI: 1.6–2.6), respectively (Table 2). Food items served on 21 April or 22 April did not show RR above 1.8. Analyses of the findings from both the Sollentuna municipality environmental team and the web-based questionnaire suggested that the source of the outbreak was the salad buffet served on 20 April, although no specific food item could be identified.
CI: confidence interval; RR: risk ratio.
The 15 stool samples were negative for Salmonella, Shigella and Campylobacter. Further analyses on 13 of these 15 samples also returned negative for adeno-, astro-, noro-, rota- and sapovirus. Material in the remaining two samples was not sufficient for virus analysis. All samples were negative for parasites (Giradia, Cryptosporiduim and Entamoeba histolytica). Two samples (sibling cases) were positive for Yersiniaenterocolitica 1A.
Subsequently, six samples had enough material left to be sent for further analysis to the Public Health Agency of Sweden, which found calicivirus in three of the samples using electron microscopy (Figure 4). All samples were also analysed using RT-PCR and WGS, in which a variant of sapovirus genogroup V was found in five of six samples.
Electron micrograph of negatively stained sapovirus, gastroenteritis outbreak, Sollentuna, Sweden, April 2016
Scale: bar indicates 50 nm.
Among kitchen staff, three of 11 had symptoms of gastroenteritis during the outbreak. Two of the three had eaten the same food as the students. Stool samples collected from the three symptomatic kitchen workers were found to be negative in routine analysis. No specimens from these kitchen workers were among those sent to the Public Health Agency of Sweden.
At the request of the Sollentuna municipality environmental team, stored frozen food was discarded and the facility, salad bar, cutting boards and utensils were thoroughly cleaned and disinfected.
The central kitchen had been cleaned on the Friday preceding the outbreak and many leftover food items had already been discarded. Therefore, collection of food samples was highly limited or from food unrelated to the outbreak. Frozen parsley had been included in several dishes served on 20 April and sufficient amounts of parsley and green beans remained for analysis.
After results from the human stool samples became available from the Public Health Agency of Sweden, parsley and green beans were sent to the National Food Agency for RT-PCR testing with appropriate primers for sapovirus. Both these food sources were negative. Mixed salad or mixed beans from 20 April were not available.
To our knowledge, this food-borne outbreak represents one of the major sapovirus outbreaks since the one in Japan in 2010 [7]. Overall, the Sollentuna outbreak in 2016 involved more than 650 reported cases of gastroenteritis in both children and adults. Sapovirus is known to cause viral gastroenteritis in young children, whereas adults seem to be less affected [2-4]. However, in this outbreak, older students and teachers appeared to be equally or even more affected than young children. The attack rate among teachers was higher than in students. This difference may be due to selection bias as the response rate was 75% among teachers and only 35% among students. This would be true if guardians of asymptomatic students were more likely to respond to the questionnaire, but this seems unlikely.
Assuming that all 2,700 meals served were consumed, causing ca 650 primary cases, this could indicate an attack rate of at least 24%. The most commonly reported symptoms were nausea and abdominal pain, followed by vomiting and diarrhoea. Fever correlated with increasing age in accordance with previous results [13]. Other sapovirus outbreaks have reported fever as the most common symptom and diarrhoea as the least common [13]. Studies comparing genogroup-specific differences and prevalence of various symptoms have found no significant associations to explain the varying clinical presentations in different outbreaks, the reason for which remains unclear [14].
Two siblings were initially found to be positive in stool cultures for Y.enterocolitica 1A. However, there is controversy regarding the pathogenicity of Y.enterocolitica 1A [15] and considering that it was only found in two siblings and no other students, this could not explain the outbreak and was hence considered to be an incidental finding.
No clear source of the outbreak was identified, although food items served in the salad buffet were suspected. The web-based questionnaire showed that mixed salad, mixed beans and green beans all had case-related RR of ca 2.0. Also, the findings of the Sollentuna municipality environmental team implicated the salad buffet (Table 1). Vegetable components including mixed salad and frozen vegetables have been reported in several food-borne outbreaks caused by caliciviruses, more specifically norovirus. Food-borne outbreaks caused by sapovirus are less common [9]. Lack of adequate food samples made it impossible to verify the results by analysing food items. Some studies show that asymptomatic food handlers have high viral loads of sapovirus [6,13,16] and may pose potential risk of secondary transmission. Of 11 kitchen workers, three reported symptoms during the outbreak which coincided with the peak of the outbreak. The questionnaire was available for seven days and as shown in the epidemic curve, symptom onset of some cases occurred almost one week after assumed exposure, which may suggest that these could in fact be secondary cases. However, we have no reason to believe that such secondary cases could have had much impact on the results.
The rapid and efficient multidisciplinary collaboration made it possible to estimate the magnitude of the outbreak, present a descriptive epicurve, provide information to the affected schools, suggest precautions and identify a plausible aetiology (calicivirus) within a few days. Despite the operational efficiency, epidemiological and microbiological evidence remained elusive, while the electron microscopy findings with whole genome sequencing represent a crucial breakthrough. Whole-genome sequencing revealed a sapovirus variant clustering with genogroup V. Phylogenetic analysis of the capsid gene showed that the sequences of S3 and S6 clustered with sapovirus genogroup V but clearly separated from almost all other isolates in the genogroup [17].The investigation of this outbreak clearly demonstrates the importance of epidemiological analysis coupled with both conventional and new microbiological techniques, especially when searching for new variants of infectious agents.
The valuable contribution from Malin Forsell and Camilla Östergren in the Sollentuna municipal environmental team as well as Magnus Simonsson at the National Food Agency are all greatly acknowledged.
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Authors' contributions
The authors have all contributed to the investigation and given valuable input to the manuscript. A writing group (M-PH, JNÖ, PF) prepared the manuscript and contributed equally to study design, data analysis and interpretation. The co-authors (EA, HHA, SH, MI, NL, BS, MT, TT) are presented in alphabetical order.
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A Brockton-based medical marijuana dispensary called "In Good Health" will offer next day delivery everywhere in Massachusetts, except Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, beginning Monday.
Employees in unmarked cars will make the deliveries, charging fees ranging from $30 to $75, depending on the distance they travel to your home.
The dispensary president said many medical marijuana patients don't have transportation and they live long distances from the nearest dispensary.
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What does insane mean?
Definitions for insaneɪnˈseɪn
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word insane.
Princeton's WordNet
afflicted with or characteristic of mental derangement
"was declared insane"; "insane laughter"
harebrained, insane, mad(adj)
very foolish
"harebrained ideas"; "took insane risks behind the wheel"; "a completely mad scheme to build a bridge between two mountains"
Exhibiting unsoundness or disorder of mind; not sane; mad; deranged in mind; delirious; distracted.
Used by, or appropriated to, insane persons; as, an insane hospital.
Causing insanity or madness.
Characterized by insanity or the utmost folly; chimerical; unpractical; as, an insane plan, attempt, etc.
Origin: From insanus, from + .
Webster Dictionary
exhibiting unsoundness or disorded of mind; not sane; mad; deranged in mind; delirious; distracted. See Insanity, 2
used by, or appropriated to, insane persons; as, an insane hospital
causing insanity or madness
characterized by insanity or the utmost folly; chimerical; unpractical; as, an insane plan, attempt, etc
Origin: [L. insanus. See In- not, and Sane.]
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Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
in-sān′, adj. not sane or of sound mind: crazy: mad: utterly unwise: senseless: causing insanity—(Shak.) 'insane root,' prob. hemlock or henbane.—adv. Insane′ly.—ns. Insane′ness, insanity: madness; Insa′nie (Shak.) insanity; Insan′ity, want of sanity: an alteration in all or any of the functions of the brain, unfitting a man for affairs, and rendering him dangerous to himself and others: madness.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of insane in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of insane in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
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It's wrong, it's insane, (NFL Commissioner) Roger Goodell, you win again.
The rule is perfect in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
I've got some insane ideas this year, what if we covered the stadium with glitter ?
Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.
We all have heart and we all want people taken care of, but with the problems our country has, to take in 250,000 -- some of whom are going to have problems, big problems -- is just insane. We have to be insane. Terrible.
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- مجنونArabic
- šílenýCzech
- sindssygDanish
- geisteskrank, verrückt, wahnsinnigGerman
- παράφρων, τρελόςGreek
- enfermo mental, insanoSpanish
- مجنون, دیوانهPersian
- mielenvikainen, hulluFinnish
- fou, malsain, dément, démentiel, dérangé, délirant, dérangeant, aberrant, chimériqueFrench
- पागलHindi
- bolond, elmebeteg, őrültHungarian
- sinting, edan, gilaIndonesian
- folle, insano, pazzoItalian
- 気が狂った, 頭がおかしい, 狂しいJapanese
- dēmēns, īnsānusLatin
- traks, vājprātīgs, ārprātīgsLatvian
- gestoord, waanzinnigDutch
- szaleńczy, szalony, obłąkanyPolish
- لېونیPashto, Pushto
- doido, insano, louco, débil mental, enlouquecedorPortuguese
- himeric, demențial, nebună, înnebunitor, delirant, dezechilibrat psihic, nebun, nebunesc, alienat mintalRomanian
- невменяемый, сумасшедший, душевнобольнойRussian
- baliwTagalog
- پاگلUrdu
- điên, cuồngVietnamese
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This is not a call for peace, unity, or reconciliation. Truly, there will be no peace, unity, or reconciliation, after tonight, between the old brigades of the conservative movement.
The conservative movement is dead.
How did the conservative movement die? For starters, Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Ben Carson, and Donald Trump all ran for President at the same time. Before this election, the conservative movement was a unified front of libertarians, constitutionalists, disaffected moderates, frustrated social conservatives, and populists. The election came and each wing of the conservative/liberty/patriot movement (whatever you want history to call it) ran a candidate for President.
It got ugly, and fast.
While we cannot yet close the book on this election cycle, it would appear that the largest and most powerful faction within the conservative movement were the populists. We knew they were there. They were loud and they thumped their chests and they said crazy things. We assured our friends that they didn't define us a group. "We're not all like that", we'd tell them. Most of us believed that the conservative movement was about principles and political philosophy, not just about beating the enemy and then taking their place while tossing principles and philosophy aside (as the populists are want to do).
Enter Donald Trump. All of sudden, libertarians, conservatives, and constitutionalists are sitting around wondering what the hell was going on. Our friends were rallying behind a progressive Democrat just because he said something about a wall and kicking out the muslims?
Our good friend, Tom White, over at Virginia Right, has lead a vociferous defense of Donald Trump and a ferocious attack against Ted Cruz for months. Just as I have led the attack against Donald Trump and the defense of Senator Ted Cruz. We both recognize that there will be RINO's to slay someday, and had tried to be careful not to go too far or to sever too deep, accidentally slicing through arteries that could not be mended.
Then… this morning, I read this:
So if you are looking for a Cult leader as the next President, and you believe that Ted Cruz is Jesus, by all means vote for this false prophet. And deal with his nasty disciples who are so swift to judge and condemn you if you are not their particular brand of extremist crazy.
Ted Cruz makes the Taliban look like sissies.
And while there are no snakes used at any Ted Cruz rallies I have seen, don't doubt for a second that Ted Cruz is truly a Serpent of Satan. (Virginia Right)
Arteries have been severed.
Now, we all know why Donald Trump is so popular. He's mocked and out foxed the media, both political establishments, and all those sanctimonious talking heads that we (the old conservative movement) have hated for so long.
But those of us who believe in specific principles, first principles, and fundamental philosophical systems, had an awful lot of questions we hoped Donald Trump would answer. Trump never would and never will, because Donald Trump has no philosophy and no first principles. Donald Trump believes in Donald Trump and so do Donald Trump's supporters. Anyone that gets in the way of Trump being President, must be destroyed.
Including all of us, in case you haven't figured that out yet. You think the media, the establishments, the other candidates, and the pundits are the last ones to be taken on by Trump and his followers?
I have heard over and over again, "If you don't like Donald Trump, too bad, he's going to be president, and you can just get out of the country!". Ladies and gentlemen – I don't think they are joking. What happens when we refuse to leave, or worse, refuse to support Donald Trump? Tom White believes that Ted Cruz is truly a Serpent of Satan. What do rabid populists do with Serpents of Satan and with their supporters?
See, I take this populist rhetoric seriously and these sorts of comments are just the beginning. Friends, if we let these people have power, it is not out of the realm of possibility that they start killing those who oppose them.
Anyone who has studied history has watched dozens of these populist, nativist, nationalist movements begin, and they know I am not overreacting. In the past, whenever one of these movements began, people died. Often times hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people.
None of this is Donald Trump's fault. I don't think he thought he'd win the nomination. I don't think he knows why anyone is even supporting him and I don't think he cares. Donald Trump has always been all about the accumulation of wealth and power, and we're about to hand him the mother lode.
What this has taught me, is that the future liberty movement in America cannot ever again include populists. We forgot the lessons of history and now we are faced with a very real, history-changing dilemma. Some of the more educated amongst the centrists of the Republican Party have been warning us for years about the populists in our midst, and we did not listen to them, because in our mind they were centrists and therefore "establishment" and therefore the enemy, not to be trusted or listened to.
Do you think they are surprised by Donald Trump and his supporters? They are not.
We are.
Lesson learned.
The new freedom movement begins today, but we must be ever vigilant to preserve and protect our movement for greater liberty through constitutionalism, individualism, and capitalism from the populists. We all now know who they are. They are our friends, our allies, and fellow soldiers in the conservative movement that died this year.
I don't hold any ill-feelings toward them. I don't hate them. I simply no longer trust them… and I'm afraid of them. And they'll tell you, if you ask them, that I should be.


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By Lori Montgomery
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, August 28, 2010; A8
American taxpayers spend 7.6 billion hours and roughly $140 billion a year to comply with the bewildering thicket of requirements in the federal tax code, according to a report released Friday by a White House advisory board whose members urged Congress to adopt their ideas for simplifying people's lives at tax time.
In an exhaustive 18-month review, the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board found that the complexity of the nation's tax laws has increased dramatically in recent years. Lawmakers have changed the code more than 15,000 times since the last major overhaul in 1986. Meanwhile, instruction booklets for the standard Form 1040 have swelled from 14 pages to 44 pages last year.
The board also found that the profusion of credits, deductions, phaseouts and conflicting eligibility requirements frays the sanity of ordinary taxpayers just as surely as it complicates the calculations of wealthy families and business owners. Tax provisions affecting families and children were among the most frequently cited sources of confusion, the report said.
"What the report makes clear is the enormous complexity of the tax law . . . for an ordinary family trying to figure out and make sure they are complying with the laws and taking advantage of benefits offered," said Harvard economist and former Reagan administration economic adviser Martin Feldstein, who led the board's effort to develop a series of options for disentangling the code.
"If those kinds of changes were accepted by the Congress in a revenue-neutral way," Feldstein said, "we would have a much better tax system."
The board - a group of economists, policymakers and business leaders led by former Federal Reserve chairman Paul A. Volcker - was established soon after President Obama took office last year and was charged with developing a series of options for simplifying the tax code, improving compliance and bringing down a corporate tax rate that, at 35 percent, is the second highest in the industrial world, after Japan's.
Its report initially was due in December, but the board chose to delay its release to study more than "600 serious submissions of tax reform ideas from the public," according to Austan Goolsbee, a member of the president's Council of Economic Advisers who serves as the board's staff director.
The board's charge did not include deficit reduction; a separate, bipartisan panel has been appointed by Obama to tackle that task.
Despite recent statements by Volcker in favor of a European-style sales tax known as a value-added tax, the board did not consider that or any other "overarching tax reform," the report said.
The board also was prohibited from considering ideas that would break Obama's pledge not to raise taxes on families earning less than $250,000 a year.
The resulting 118-page report nonetheless offers dozens of ideas for improving the code, starting with simplification for average people.
For example, the report cites more than 20 tax laws that provide incentives to save for retirement and other purposes, such as education and medical expenses, and that together deprive the Treasury of an estimated $118 billion year. But their sheer number and conflicting rules leave taxpayers confused and intimidated, the report says, raising doubts about their effectiveness.
At least 18 provisions benefit taxpayers with educational expenses, the report says, requiring families to fill out endless work sheets to determine which ones are available and most beneficial. Meanwhile, families with children face myriad additional calculations to claim an array of credits and deductions.
The report suggests consolidating many of these provisions. One option would replace the dependent exemption, standard deduction and child tax credit with a single "family credit" available to all taxpayers. Tax benefits for higher education could be replaced by "a similarly generous extended family credit for full-time students under age 22," the report says.
The report also proposes a "simple return" that could be pre-filled by the Internal Revenue Service and mailed to as many as 60 million taxpayers who don't itemize deductions and receive all their income from employers who report to the IRS directly. People could simply check it for accuracy, sign it and send it back in.
"As we looked into the taxes that affect the average American, the moderate-income individual and households, we discovered that we have loaded into our tax code a plethora of different options and approaches, each one of which probably made sense when it was adopted" but that now "looks to be very much an untended garden," said Roger Ferguson, who served with Feldstein on the tax subcommittee.
Ferguson, chief executive of Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association and a former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve, urged lawmakers to view simplification for individuals "as an area that really does need to be addressed."
The report now goes to Obama and the deficit commission, as well as to congressional policymakers. It is unclear how much influence it will have. A 2005 panel developed detailed recommendations for changes to the tax system that were quickly shelved by President George W. Bush. Tax experts said the latest report at least outlines a series of sensible trade-offs that may be useful as the tax debate advances before the deficit commission and in Congress.
"It does more than I expected, given the constraints under which the board had to operate," said Roberton Williams, senior fellow at the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center. "The report is more than a simple laundry list of options but rather a coherent set of options that really would simplify the income tax" for individuals, he said.
To read the report, go to http://wapo.st/b67U2u.


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Tucked away in a tiny storefront at 110 Meserole Avenue, Vintage Modern is easy to miss. At a cozy 250 square feet, you may not notice it when you stroll by. Once inside though, you'll find that the small size makes for a huge advantage. It forces owner and shopkeeper Erin Hall to carefully curate and display only her best finds. The store is brimming with distinctive mid-century American furniture and accessories, all of which Hall hunted down at flea markets and estate sales in the tri-state area.
Having an undergraduate degree in interior design, Hall always had an interest in home furnishings and made a hobby out of collecting vintage furniture. When her Greenpoint apartment became overrun with finds, she got a booth at the Artists & Fleas in Williamsburg. In August, Hall quit her full-time job as a graphic designer to open Vintage Modern and settled on the former home of Old Hollywood, a vintage-inspired jewelry and clothing store, which is now on Franklin Street.
Hall saw Greenpoint as the perfect location for her shop. "People are coming out here that didn't used to. There is a great demographic," she says. "You get so many different age groups and income levels. It's an interesting mix of people." Staying true to that, the store has a mix of price points with everything from Westall Richardson flatware for $45 a set to a $1,450 signed Paul McCobb Credenza –– which is a steal when you consider that it can easily retail for around $3,000.
Vastly different from some vintage furniture stores, everything in Vintage Modern is in really good shape. Hall believes that just because it's vintage doesn't mean it needs to be falling apart. She works hard to find pieces that are high quality and cleans them with light steel wool and refinishing products before displaying them. If it's pricey, that's because you're getting vintage style and close-to-new quality.
In addition to the vintage selection, the store has some accessories that are brand new like the simple necklaces by Alex Keller, who uses reclaimed materials and beads ($25). There are also Bee-Things' limited edition 10 X 14 screen prints ($25) and a variety of Nest Candles in scents like moss & mint and grapefruit ($32, or $14 for votives). Hall also designs her own pillows, which are made out of vintage scarves ($75).
While Vintage Modern carries some high-end, designer pieces for home décor fanatics, Hall's main goal is to simply sell things that she likes, even if it's her friend's sunburst clock from the 60's. You can spend a lot of time navigating through the store, asking Hall the story behind each piece. "I want to sell really cool pieces that you aren't intimidated by," she says of her goal. With her as the friendly shopkeeper, it is definitely accomplished.
Vintage Modern is open Thursday-Sunday 12 – 7 pm. For more information, visit vintagemodernnyc.com.