The first stage begins an unknown amount of time before the initial outbreak.

They had it well under control after the initial outbreak.

Health professionals are publicly raising questions about whether officials let their guard down after the initial outbreak subsided.

Also, after the initial outbreak of aggressive pneumonias here, doctors eventually put new procedures in place.

It has been addressed that Hispanics were not part of the initial outbreak.

We're not going to have the same numbers that we did in the initial outbreak.

It said there had been no further cases of contamination or related deaths since the initial outbreak.

It has not been detected in the wild since its initial outbreak.

It is the first winter without a case since the initial outbreak in late 2002.

The initial outbreak received a week of near-constant media attention.