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As stated before, because a particular disease cluster can be due
solely to chance, disease clusters can only be hypothesis generating.
If a particular etiology is postulated, the Investigators must seek
outside the original disease cluster community to perform a new
investigation. If they only perform additional investigations within
the same community, it will be a self-fulfilling prophecy that they
will find something because they already found the cluster. As with
all scientific investigations, the hypotheses must be tested elsewhere.
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