Influenza or not influenza: Analysis of a case of high fever that happened 2000 years ago in Biblical time

The Bible describes the case of a woman with high fever cured by our Lord Jesus Christ. Based on the information provided by the gospels of Mark, Matthew and Luke, the diagnosis and the possible etiology of the febrile illness is discussed. Infectious diseases continue to be a threat to humanity, an...

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Autores principales: Hon, Kam LE, Ng, Pak C, Leung, Ting F
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2918564/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20663162
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1743-422X-7-169
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description The Bible describes the case of a woman with high fever cured by our Lord Jesus Christ. Based on the information provided by the gospels of Mark, Matthew and Luke, the diagnosis and the possible etiology of the febrile illness is discussed. Infectious diseases continue to be a threat to humanity, and influenza has been with us since the dawn of human history. If the postulation is indeed correct, the woman with fever in the Bible is among one of the very early description of human influenza disease. Infectious diseases continue to be a threat to humanity, and influenza has been with us since the dawn of human history. We analysed a case of high fever that happened 2000 years ago in Biblical time and discussed possible etiologies.
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spelling pubmed-29185642010-08-10 Influenza or not influenza: Analysis of a case of high fever that happened 2000 years ago in Biblical time Hon, Kam LE Ng, Pak C Leung, Ting F Virol J Case Report The Bible describes the case of a woman with high fever cured by our Lord Jesus Christ. Based on the information provided by the gospels of Mark, Matthew and Luke, the diagnosis and the possible etiology of the febrile illness is discussed. Infectious diseases continue to be a threat to humanity, and influenza has been with us since the dawn of human history. If the postulation is indeed correct, the woman with fever in the Bible is among one of the very early description of human influenza disease. Infectious diseases continue to be a threat to humanity, and influenza has been with us since the dawn of human history. We analysed a case of high fever that happened 2000 years ago in Biblical time and discussed possible etiologies. BioMed Central 2010-07-21 /pmc/articles/PMC2918564/ /pubmed/20663162 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1743-422X-7-169 Text en Copyright ©2010 Hon et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Influenza or not influenza: Analysis of a case of high fever that happened 2000 years ago in Biblical time
title Influenza or not influenza: Analysis of a case of high fever that happened 2000 years ago in Biblical time
title_full Influenza or not influenza: Analysis of a case of high fever that happened 2000 years ago in Biblical time
title_fullStr Influenza or not influenza: Analysis of a case of high fever that happened 2000 years ago in Biblical time
title_full_unstemmed Influenza or not influenza: Analysis of a case of high fever that happened 2000 years ago in Biblical time
title_short Influenza or not influenza: Analysis of a case of high fever that happened 2000 years ago in Biblical time
title_sort influenza or not influenza: analysis of a case of high fever that happened 2000 years ago in biblical time
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2918564/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20663162
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1743-422X-7-169
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