Hospital Cafeteria Closed
New cases are occurring even after the hospital cafeteria closed because the probability of infection is related to the dose of organisms an individual ingested. From the Heymann text, about 100 organisms is needed for 10-20% for probability of infection and 1 million organisms is needed for 60-80% infection. Low does ingestion can take up to 16 days, so even though typical incubation is a range of 6 hours to 3 days, its not uncommon for longer times.
Given that each individual might have consumed different amount of organism, it will depend on the dose that determines how slow of fast the incubation is before they get sick and why some of the peaks on the table varies. Its true after the hospital closed, no other cases should have occurred
Given that each individual might have consumed different amount of organism, it will depend on the dose that determines how slow of fast the incubation is before they get sick and why some of the peaks on the table varies. Its true after the hospital closed, no other cases should have occurred