HISTOPLASMOSIS IN EPIDEMIC FORM

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Abstract
HISTOPLASMOSIS in its acute form occurs either as a benign or as a fulminating fatal disease. Previous reports of the disease indicate that it has occurred sporadically and not in epidemic form. We have had the opportunity to follow up 1 of 26 cases of diffuse pneumonitis which occurred as an epidemic at Camp Gruber, Okla., in 1944 and was reported as "An Unusual Pulmonary Disease."1 This case is presented in detail, since we feel that it will aid in establishing the origin of this epidemic as an infection with Histoplasma capsulatum. REPORT OF A CASE R. W., a white man, was admitted to the United States Army Station Hospital, Camp Gruber, Okla., on March 28, 1944, acutely ill, complaining of chills and fever, sweating, generalized aching, headache, and nonproductive cough. In the next few days 25 other soldiers in his company were admitted to this hospital with similar

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