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Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg., 30(5), 1981, pp. 1141-1143
Copyright © 1981 by The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

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Eosinophilic Meningitis in the New Hebrides:* Two Outbreaks and two Deaths

Donald K. Bowden
Vila Base Hospital, Port Vila, New Hebrides, S.W. Pacific

Nineteen patients were found with eosinophilic meningitis in the New Hebrides during a 3-year period. Two patients died. Autopsy revealed Angiostrongylus cantonensis larvae and a widespread meningoencephalitis in the central nervous system in both cases.

Accepted for publication May 22, 1981.


* New Hebrides is now the Republic of Vanuatu.




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