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Word: pleurodynia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1951-1951
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...August, Bonham was in the grip of an epidemic. The cases were all the same: two swift, polio-like attacks followed by rapid recovery. Dr. Risser, a former Army epidemiologist, consulted his medical books, wrote the U.S. Public Health Service that Bonham had been hit by epidemic pleurodynia ("devil's grip"), probably caused by an elusive virus known as Coxsackie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Polio's Little Brother? | 9/17/1951 | See Source »

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