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JAMA. 1973;226(1):11-22.

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'Medical sleuth' tries to identify mystery illness in school children

School has reopened quietly in Berry, Ala, and things seem to be going pretty well.

A small event, perhaps, but a matter of considerable relief to state and federal health officers. They were hoping there would not be another outbreak of whatever it was that closed the schools of Berry last spring.

It was at 10:30 AM on Friday, May 11—many witnesses confirm the time almost to the minute— that an epidemic started in the Berry Elementary School. Within two hours it had affected 105 children.

At the height of the outbreak, the school yard was filled with itching, scratching students, many of them faint and gasping for breath. In all, that day, 70 persons were treated at the community hospital emergency room in nearby Fayette, the county seat of Fayette County, Ala.

Then, another strange thing happened. Within two hours it had . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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