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Some intra-city variations of leukemia incidence in San Francisco

✍ Scribed by Piero Mustacchi


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1965
Tongue
English
Weight
507 KB
Volume
18
Category
Article
ISSN
0008-543X

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✦ Synopsis


N EXCEPTIONAL CLUSTERING OF CASES OF

A leukemia in the parish of St. John Brebeuf in Niles, Illinois1. l4 recently has attracted considerable attention and has been the object of completely different interpretations. According to one point of view the outbreak was not a chance occurrence but rather was evidence favoring the hypothesis that human leukemia could be mediated by an infectious agent.6.13 A second explanation suggested that, in view of the large number of American communities the size of Niles, the St. John Brebeuf epidemic could be considered a happenstance governed by the laws of probabili ty.3