1.   Thousands of refugees left the country following the outbreak of civil war.

2.   It is not clear whether the immediate cause of this was a fortuitous series of better harvests or a further decline in population following later outbreaks of plague.

3.   Consumers stayed away from restaurants and bars following the outbreak of the virulent strain of E-coli virus, the tax office said.

4.   Following an outbreak of plague, the town began executing Jews and accused heretics.

5.   Fresh food sales have recovered after declining sharply following several outbreaks of food poisoning in the middle of last year, which was traced to E. coli bacteria.

6.   He said the agency was following the outbreak, but that the numbers were not uncommonly high.

7.   On Monday, Belgian Agriculture Minister Karel Pinxten banned imports from the whole of Germany following outbreaks of classical swine fever there during the past week.

8.   Rising sales of U.S. pork to Japan were expected after that country stopped importing pork from Taiwan following an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease last March.

9.   People defending their homes against invasion should not be arrested or prosecuted, the state attorney general said in a memo that followed an outbreak of break-ins.

10.   Rafsanjani canceled his visit to New Delhi last October following the outbreak of plague, causing embarrassment to host India.