Epidemic Pleurodynia in Texas

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Abstract
EPIDEMIC pleurodynia (Bornholm disease, epidemic myalgia, devil's grippe), first described by Daae1 and Homann2 in Norway in 1872 and by Finsen3 in Iceland in 1874, has been reported with ever-increasing frequency since the appearance of the classic monograph by Sylvest4 in 1933. Although a virus etiology was postulated by many observers, attempts to isolate an infectious agent of likely etiologic significance were unsuccessful until recently.In 1949 Curnen, Shaw and Melnick,5 reporting the occurrence of the Connecticut 5 Coxsackie virus (classified by Dalldorf as Bl) in patients with diagnoses of nonparalytic poliomyelitis or aseptic meningitis, noted the recovery of the . . .