This report summarizes the epidemiologic and clinical features of this outbreak and discusses the change in availability of adenovirus vaccines for military use. The facility provides high school education and vocational training for 240 persons aged 16-21 years. Sixty students are housed in each dormitory, with six to 10 persons per room sleeping in bunk beds.
Students share a common dining hall.
Routine medical care is provided by an infirmary nurse, who refers more severe illnesses to visiting physicians or local hospitals. Hospitalization discharge summaries are forwarded to the infirmary nurse. Following the outbreak, a chart review was conducted at the facility's infirmary by the infirmary nurse. A case of ARD was defined as either URTI or LRTI in any student. Students with URTI were more likely than students with LRTI to have headache.