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Puzzling Symptoms.
Polly Murray was alarmed. One by one her family developed a strange combination of shared symptoms: rashes, headaches, pain and stiffness in their joints. "By the summer of 1975 my husband and two of the children were on crutches. Meanwhile I kept hearing about other people, most of them children, with the same symptoms." So she contacted state health authorities. At the same time, Yale University rheumatologist Allen Steere received a phone call about a mysterious outbreak of arthritis around Lyme, Connecticut. Many children were affected, and since juvenile arthritis was rare and was not known to be infectious, Steere was almost certain he was looking at a new disease. Unlike Legionnaires' disease, this new disease was debilitating but not normally fatal.
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