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sparked a public health scare

Dutch translation: *

14:25 Sep 2, 2005
English to Dutch translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - International Org/Dev/Coop
English term or phrase: sparked a public health scare
Is it because it's Friday evening? I seem to be unable to come up with any ideas on this one:

"People have been hospitalized following a typhoid outbreak that has sparked a public health scare."
hirselina
Dutch translation:*
Explanation:
...een nachtmerrie voor de volksgezondheid betekende

(maar misschien bedoelen ze dit: ...onrust veroorzaakte onder het grote publiek)
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Harry Borsje
Netherlands
Local time: 03:33
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Explanation:
...een nachtmerrie voor de volksgezondheid betekende

(maar misschien bedoelen ze dit: ...onrust veroorzaakte onder het grote publiek)

Harry Borsje
Netherlands
Local time: 03:33
Native speaker of: Native in DutchDutch
PRO pts in category: 4
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Leo te Braake | dutCHem: de onrust-versie
1 hr
agree  Jooske: ik zou kiezen voor onrust veroorzaakte onder het grote publiek;
2 hrs
agree  11thmuse: onrust
8 hrs
agree  Liesbeth Huijer: onrust veroorzaakte
16 hrs
agree  Pasteur: Leo (en andere collaga's), ik had de onrust-versie toch apart opgegeven, maar jullie aardigheid siert jullie! Onrust natuurlijk
9 days
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