摘要：The Tropic al Public Health Unit (TPHU) in Townsville was alerted on 16 March 2004 to the possibility of a cluster of cases of haemoly tic uraemic sy ndrome (HUS). This followed the admission of an 18-month-old female from a small regional hospital to a hospital in Townsville. At the time of this child's admission, a repor t was also made (from the same hospital in Townsville) of another case of HUS, from the same small regional town, two months previously. Very few details were initially available on the previous case
