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Like wars and natural disasters, new epidemics of infections occur regularly. Sometimes they skip generations and are perceived as novel and improbable, when in fact they are ageless and routine. Thus, we should not be astonished to read in this issue of the Journal of the emergence of yet another infectious disease, initially involving 17 patients in the southwestern United States¹. The patients were all previously healthy, yet 13 died from an apparent adult respiratory distress syndrome and myocardial depression leading to irreversible hypotension. After four to five days of an influenza-like prodrome, virtually all the patients had fever . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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