Haff disease: from the Baltic Sea to the U.S. shore.
U Buchholz1,E Mouzin1,R Dickey1,R Moolenaar1,N Sass1,L Mascola1
U Buchholz
1Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, Acute Communicable Disease Control, CA 90012, USA. ubuchholz@dhs.co.la.ca.us
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E Mouzin
1Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, Acute Communicable Disease Control, CA 90012, USA. ubuchholz@dhs.co.la.ca.us
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R Dickey
1Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, Acute Communicable Disease Control, CA 90012, USA. ubuchholz@dhs.co.la.ca.us
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R Moolenaar
1Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, Acute Communicable Disease Control, CA 90012, USA. ubuchholz@dhs.co.la.ca.us
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N Sass
1Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, Acute Communicable Disease Control, CA 90012, USA. ubuchholz@dhs.co.la.ca.us
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L Mascola
1Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, Acute Communicable Disease Control, CA 90012, USA. ubuchholz@dhs.co.la.ca.us
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1Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, Acute Communicable Disease Control, CA 90012, USA. ubuchholz@dhs.co.la.ca.us
PMCID: PMC2640861 PMID:10756156
Abstract
Haff disease, identified in Europe in 1924, is unexplained rhabdomyolysis in a person who ate fish in the 24 hours before onset of illness. We describe a series of six U.S. patients from 1997 and report new epidemiologic and etiologic aspects. Although Haff disease is traditionally an epidemic foodborne illness, these six cases occurred in two clusters and as one sporadic case.
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