Word: herpangina
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Some cause Iceland's pleurodynia, or "devil's grip," and Bornholm disease (named for the Danish island in the Baltic where it was first reported). Others cause a rapidly fatal inflammation of the heart muscle in the newborn. One sets off a severe sore throat unaptly named herpangina. Several behave like polio's little brothers. And, said Dr. Dalldorf, now with Sloan-Kettering Institute after a stint with the National Foundation, many reported cases of paralytic polio after Salk vaccinations are probably not polio at all, but Coxsackie...
...thought of his old teacher in years, Huebner knew that if any U.S. doctor had ever described the mysterious children's disease, it would be Zahorsky. He dug out the aging doctor's books, got results. One Zahorsky tome listed the symptoms, called the disease "Herpangina." Following this clue, doctors found that Zahorsky had first named the disease...
Saved from a medical slip, Dr. Huebner and colleagues rewrote this report for publication in the A.M.A. Journal (March 3). Instead of telling about a "new" child's disease, they reported the rediscovery of Herpangina...
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