Herpangina

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Abstract
FOR many past summers, a disease entity characterized by fever with vesicular or ulcerated throat lesions and chiefly affecting children has been prevalent in the District of Columbia and its environs. During the summer of 1950 it became widely disseminated, assuming epidemic proportions during July and August. There was general agreement among the physicians practicing in these areas that the disease made its appearance with some regularity each summer, was highly contagious and usually ran a benign, self-limited course. It is now apparent that this disease was herpangina, a specific entity described by Zahorsky1 , 2 in 1920. Very few reports on . . .

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