1950 Louisville outbreak
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In October, 1950, 37 student nurses out of 161 came down with epidemic neuromyasthenia. 20 required hospitalization.[1]
Onset[edit | edit source]
Symptoms[edit | edit source]
Findings[edit | edit source]
"Attempts to isolate an infectious agent failed in the 33 patients and eight asymptomatic student-nurse contacts whose feces were tested in suckling and adult mice and in rhesus monkeys. Repeated attempts and "blind passages" were negative. The paired serum specimens of the 33 patients and eight contacts were subjected with negative results to complement-fixation tests against the Coxsackie viruses known in 1951."[1]
Epidemiology[edit | edit source]
Prognosis[edit | edit source]
The duration of illness ranged from one week to as long as three months in one patient.
See also[edit | edit source]
- Epidemic myalgic encephalomyelitis
- List of myalgic encephalomyelitis and chronic fatigue syndrome outbreaks
References[edit | edit source]
serum - The clear yellowish fluid that remains from blood plasma after clotting factors have been removed by clot formation. (Blood plasma is simply blood that has had its blood cells removed.)
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