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In fact, NIOSH concluded that the majority of these occupational disease clusters were due to chance or even a “false alarm.” Furthermore, as commented in the general disease cluster literature, considerable time and resources must be devoted to appropriately investigate a disease cluster. Therefore, the investigation of disease clusters in any scenario should not be undertaken lightly.