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Oroya fever of the highland Andes, apparently caused by nocturnal, blood sucking flies (phlebotomi). The first phase of the disease is a raging fever, highly in fectious, usually fatal; the second, an eruption of pea-like warts on knees, elbows, face. For this menace there is no known prevention, no known cure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: 50,000,000 Hopeless Cases | 7/13/1942 | See Source »

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