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Parechovirus Outbreak among Infants, Australiaranging from 70% to 90%, compared with our finding of57% (2,5,8,14).Clinical signs reported in the literature for HPeV3-infectedinfants were consistent with our findings of fever, irritability,and encephalitis (2,6,8). However, rash occurredwith much higher frequency (62% vs. 17%) in the NSWoutbreak than in other outbreaks (8).Syndromic surveillance that used emergency departmentdata proved to be a useful and timely way to monitoremergency department hospital admissions temporally associatedwith the HPeV3 outbreak. Increased presentationof infants