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UNEXPLAINED RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME [1 record]

Record 1 1998-12-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Human Diseases
CONT

A MYSTERY plague that has killed 11 people in New Mexico and Arizona may have been caused by a rare virus that is carried by rodents... The sickness - provisionally called Unexplained Respiratory Distress Syndrome, or URDS - has infected at least 18 people, all of them young and otherwise healthy.

OBS

Sufferers first developed flu-like symptoms such as fever, aching muscles and coughs; later, suffocating levels of fluid accumulated in their lungs.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Maladies humaines

Spanish

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