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  • Title: Communicable illnesses in the mentally retarded and nonretarded populations of three Michigan counties.
    Author: Zonia SC, Goff GA.
    Journal: Am J Ment Defic; 1986 Jan; 90(4):453-6. PubMed ID: 3946481.
    Abstract:
    Fourteen categories of communicable diseases reported on a weekly basis to state public health officials were considered. Mentally retarded persons living in a three-county area were compared with the counties' general population over a 4-year period. Results indicated that retarded persons had a significantly higher prevalence rate of 6 of the 14 communicable diseases and a higher probability rate for 3 of the diseases studied than did the general population. The few illnesses that the retarded population did contract, however, occurred at a much higher rate than that of the nonretarded population.
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