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Robert J. Joynt, MD, PhD

Arch Neurol. 1996;53(1):17.

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THEJOURNAL of the American Medical Association and the ARCHIVES group have chosen the theme of emerging and reemerging global microbial threats. The editorial calling for papers emphasized the enormity of this problem and also noted the relative ignorance of both the public and the health care profession about its seriousness.¹ Apart from the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), we have had little experience or awareness of widespread untreated or untreatable disease. The idea of a plague is as distant as the biblical accounts in Exodus or Revelations or our college literature assignment of Camus' The Plague. The recent outbreak of the Ebola virus with the worldwide publicity surrounding its devastation has reminded us of our tenuous covenant with the microbes.

Richard Johnson and Robert Herndon are both experienced investigators in the field of infectious disorders of the nervous system. They look at different aspects of this problem.

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