Aleutian-Mink Disease in Man

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Abstract
IN 1955 a patient in the Brooklyn Veterans Administration Hospital died after a two-year illness that was undiagnosed despite intensive examination by many physicians. Autopsy revealed widespread, unusual anatomic alterations that were not recognized by any of the pathologists who examined the tissues as ever having been previously described.Helmboldt and Jungherr,1 in 1958, reported the anatomic pathology of a newly recognized disease in mink, which because of the particular susceptibility of Aleutian mink was named Aleutian-mink disease. The tissue changes in this disease were similar to those found in our patient. This is especially noteworthy because our patient raised . . .