Infections related to emergency admissions in the UK ?

HCAF have discovered a 3 to 8 (average 5 to 6) year pattern in emergency medical admissions which is international in scope, age, gender and diagnosis specific and shows an infectious-like spatio-temporal spread. In England, each 'outbreak' leads to around £6 billion of unexpected costs and step-increases in medical admissions, ED attendance, GP referral, a period of excess deaths and changes in the incidence of particular cancers.

The ubiquitous herpes virus, cytomegalovirus (CMV) may be directly or indirectly involved. A review of the mechanisms by which CMV could cause such outbreaks, especially in the elderly, has been published Read as has a review of the clinical basis for hospitalisation and death Read. This ground breaking work has profound implications to all aspects of commissioning,  capacity planning and the funding of health services.