Mystery Cases - odd infections

       The initial reports of 1981, including the full-length articles published in the prestigious and widely read New England Journal of Medicine in December 1981, described other odd infections.  These infections were so uncommon in industrialized countries that most physicians in the United States had never heard of them. Nevertheless, they were serious, aggressive, and deadly. Doctors and public health officials were trying to grasp what was happening—vigorous young men were being hospitalized for and dying from infection in the latter part of the twentieth century. It just was not computing.