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Volume 26, Number 12—December 2020

Research

Outbreak of Haff Disease along the Yangtze River, Anhui Province, China, 2016

Huilai Ma1, Jiabing Wu1, Wei Qin1, Chao Lin, Dan Li, Bing Zha, Qi Chen, Yan Ma, Tichao Zhou, Shicong Li, Lei Gong, Wanwan Ma, Dafang Ge, Zhouxiang Cheng, Jian Chen, and Qun LiComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China (H. Ma, W. Qin, C. Lin, D. Li, Q. Chen, Y. Ma, T. Zhou, S. Li, Q. Li); Anhui Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hefei, China (J. Wu, L. Gong, W. Ma); Lu’an Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Lu’an (W. Qin); Wuhu Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Wuhu, China (C. Lin, Z. Cheng); Ma’anshan Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Ma’anshan (B. Zha, D. Ge, J. Chen)

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Table 1

Clinical characteristics during Haff disease outbreak in Anhui Province, China, 2016

Symptoms No. cases (%), N = 495
Myalgia 495 (100.0)
  Back 241 (48.7)
  Waist 194 (39.2)
  Whole-body 186 (37.6)
  Neck 186 (37.6)
  Lower limbs 111 (22.4)
  Upper limbs 89 (18.0)
  Chest
 59 (11.9)
Muscle weakness 271 (54.7)
Brown urine 99 (20.0)
Dyspnea 60 (12.1)
Headache 49 (9.9)
Abdominal pain 46 (9.3)
Diarrhea 32 (6.5)
Vomiting 29 (5.9)
Dizziness 25 (5.1)
Nausea 21 (4.2)
Nerve paralysis 11 (2.2)
Fever 1 (0.2)

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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