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== Epidemiology == "Of the twenty-eight patients and staff at risk, seven nurses, five patients, an auxiliary and a male doctor were affected and there were three outside contacts. The age range was from 21 to 38 and six patients were over 30 years old."<ref name="Parish, 1978" /> Several differences appeared in this epidemic, compared to the the one at Erstfeld: 1) it spread to the community, 2) there was twice the number with central nervous symptom involvement, and 3) patients had longer recovery and more relapses.<ref name="Parish, 1978" /> One particularly unusual difference between this hospital outbreak and others that occurred at a later date in hospitals, is that the illness affected patients as well as staff. A possible reason, Parish theorizes, is that the hospital patients were maternity patients who were laboring when exposed to the infection and "the deleterious effect of physical exercise during exposure and convalescence" may have increased their risk of infection.<ref name="Parish, 1978" />
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