Information regarding to the occupational relationships

Ref.

Title

Task performed

(relationship between cases)

Agent/risk exposure

Environmental spread

Exposure circumstances

Concurrent facts

Cases location

40

Q fever outbreak in industrial setting.

Office workers and workers setting on non-protected places

Dust containing C. burnetii spores

Additional cases due to an environmental spread of the agent

Removing contaminated straw boards from walls and ceilings

Office renovation works

Areas affected by dust from renovation works

41

Case report: three farmworkers who gave birth to infants with birth defects closely grouped in time and place— Florida and North Carolina, 2004-2005.

Working in tomato grower’s farms

Exposure to pesticides during gestational period

-

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Poor working conditions. Working in violation of the restricted interval entry

In grower field

42

Clustered outbreak of skin and eye complaints among catering staff.

Kitchen staff

UVC tubes

Additional cases due to an environmental spread of the agent

Electric fly killers

Incorrect maintenance

(UVC tubes into electric fly traps)

Working areas next to UVC tubes

43

A cluster of male breast cancer in office workers.

Working office next to an

electrical switchgear room

Electric-magnetic fields exposure

Additional cases due to an environmental spread of the agent

Electric facilities in the building

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Working areas next to electrical switchgear room