Carol, I googled and found this:
http://ask.yahoo.com/2412.html
and this
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/pagerender.fcgi?artid=1043971pageindex=1
MaggiRos
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One of the historical fiction novels I read year's ago mentioned that the
disease had an uncanny ability to seek out Englishmen
I don't know if someone already said this, but some modern researchers
think the sweating sickness was a hantavirus:
http://discovermagazine.com/1997/jun/thesweatingsickn1161
and some don't:
http://forums.canadiancontent.net/history/64095-sweating-sickness-english-sweat.html
Fran
Lavolta
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One of the historical fiction novels I read year's ago mentioned that the
disease had an uncanny ability to seek out
One of the historical fiction novels I read year's ago mentioned that the
disease had an uncanny ability to seek out Englishmen in other countries (diet,
perhaps?) also that it seemed to be associated with outbreaks of murrain in
cattle. Does anyone know the modern name for that disease?
