Numbness of the Arm

A legendary but surprisingly docile pathogen takes hold in a young man

By Robert A Norman
Feb 1, 2002 6:00 AMNov 12, 2019 6:22 AM

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"Is there anything else that you can tell me about it? Does it itch? Is it painful?"

"No, not really," my patient said. Patrick was a quiet, thin man of 22. I asked him a few questions about himself. He told me he worked in the biology department of a local university and that he had come from Vietnam eight years ago. He had not traveled outside the United States since then. He had family in a nearby town and lived in an apartment off campus.

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