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Asian Influenza—Clinical Picture
GEORGE E. BURCH, M.D.;
JOHN J. WALSH, M.D.;
WILLIAM J. MOGABGAB, M.D.
AMA Arch Intern Med. 1959;103(5):696-707.
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Of the great plagues that in past centuries regularly decimated the world population, only influenza remains. The recent pandemic of Asian influenza made very manifest the limits of our progress in the conquest of this scourge. Currently we know and can study the causative agent, have a good but far from perfect vaccine, and can treat most complications successfully. Incomplete is our knowledge concerning the clinical symptoms associated with influenzal infection, the variations in number and intensity of these symptoms, and their complications and sequelae. For these reasons it is appropriate to present and to record the complete clinical picture, observed in the New Orleans area during August, September, and October, 1957, in 76 patients who suffered from influenza, established by specific diagnostic tests to be due to influenza Type A, Asian strain.
Background
This study, one of many planned and initiated by the threat of an impending invasion of
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Author Affiliations
New Orleans
From the Department of Medicine, of the Tulane University School of Medicine, Charity Hospital of Louisiana, and the U. S. P. H. S. Hospital.
Footnotes
Submitted for publication Sept. 19, 1958.
Aided by grants from the U. S. Public Health Service, The Thibodeaux Research Fund, and The Upjohn Company, Kalamazoo, Mich.
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