Emerging infectious diseases – 1970s

Forty years ago is not ancient history in the medical field. However, being an eye witness to the emergence of three new infectious diseases in the northeastern United States in the 1970s left a deep impression on this author. I will relate a small portion of the amazing events that caught the atten...

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Autor principal: Ferguson, Robert
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Co-Action Publishing 2016
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Brief Historical Perspectives
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5087266/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27802859
http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/jchimp.v6.32662
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description Forty years ago is not ancient history in the medical field. However, being an eye witness to the emergence of three new infectious diseases in the northeastern United States in the 1970s left a deep impression on this author. I will relate a small portion of the amazing events that caught the attention of the medical establishment and the general public in a roughly 5-year period of medical discovery.
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spelling pubmed-50872662016-11-17 Emerging infectious diseases – 1970s Ferguson, Robert J Community Hosp Intern Med Perspect Brief Historical Perspectives Forty years ago is not ancient history in the medical field. However, being an eye witness to the emergence of three new infectious diseases in the northeastern United States in the 1970s left a deep impression on this author. I will relate a small portion of the amazing events that caught the attention of the medical establishment and the general public in a roughly 5-year period of medical discovery. Co-Action Publishing 2016-10-26 /pmc/articles/PMC5087266/ /pubmed/27802859 http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/jchimp.v6.32662 Text en © 2016 Robert Ferguson http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5087266/
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