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Official outbreak counts are floors, not measurements.
Herds pass routine screening until they turn clinical, contact lists hold a fraction of expected contacts, and the untested never enter the tally — so every official case count understates the outbreak that actually exists.
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DRC Bundibugyo Ebola: 9,235 Cases, 4,444 Deaths — Kenya's Cluster Grows to 7 With First In-Country Transmission (3 Health Workers Infected) Contact-tracing nets are capturing only a fraction of infections, so the reported epidemic trails the real one.
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H5N1 Reaches Washington Dairy Herds — and Their First Human Case: Yakima County Dairy Worker Infected After Cattle Exposure Surveillance-negative herds turned clinical, demonstrating that official negative counts understate the outbreak that actually exists.
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CDC Confirms Multistate E. coli Outbreak Linked to Raw-Milk Cheese — 13 Cases, 9 States, 3 Kidney-Failure Cases, Half the Patients Under 5 Untested recoveries never enter the tally, making every official case count a floor rather than a measurement.