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Letters1 January 2013A Foodborne Disease Outbreak With an Unusual CauseYong Wang, MD, PhD, Hanbin Wang, MD, PhD, Shaofu Qiu, PhD, Xishan Xiong, MD, Xiaoling Liu, MD, and Hongbin Song, MD, PhDYong Wang, MD, PhDFrom Institute of Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Academy of Military Medical Sciences, and The No. 307 Hospital of the People's Liberation Army, Beijing, China.Search for more papers by this author, Hanbin Wang, MD, PhDFrom Institute of Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Academy of Military Medical Sciences, and The No. 307 Hospital of the People's Liberation Army, Beijing, China.Search for more papers by this author, Shaofu Qiu, PhDFrom Institute of Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Academy of Military Medical Sciences, and The No. 307 Hospital of the People's Liberation Army, Beijing, China.Search for more papers by this author, Xishan Xiong, MDFrom Institute of Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Academy of Military Medical Sciences, and The No. 307 Hospital of the People's Liberation Army, Beijing, China.Search for more papers by this author, Xiaoling Liu, MDFrom Institute of Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Academy of Military Medical Sciences, and The No. 307 Hospital of the People's Liberation Army, Beijing, China.Search for more papers by this author, and Hongbin Song, MD, PhDFrom Institute of Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Academy of Military Medical Sciences, and The No. 307 Hospital of the People's Liberation Army, Beijing, China.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-158-1-201301010-00021 SectionsAboutFull TextPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail Background: Guidelines from the World Health Organization for managing foodborne disease outbreaks caution about the following possible causes: pathogenic bacteria, viruses, protozoa, trematodes, cestodes, nematodes, natural toxins, and chemicals, but not medicines (1).Objective: To report a foodborne disease outbreak caused by clonidine.Methods and Findings: On 23 April 2010 at 11:50 a.m., travelers who had just finished lunch at a restaurant in the Huairou District, Beijing, China, began to feel faint. By 2:30 p.m., 80 people comprising 43 men and 37 women with a median age of 32.4 years (range, 20 to 75 years) developed dizziness (100%), weakness (87.5%), ...
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