RHINOVIRUS INFECTIONS IN AN ISOLATED ANTARCTIC STATION TRANSMISSION OF THE VIRUSES AND SUSCEPTIBILITY OF THE POPULATION

• Main Authors: WARSHAUER, DAVID M., DICK, ELLIOT C., MANDEL, ADRIAN D., FLYNN, TIMOTHY C., JERDE, RICHARD S.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 1989
• Subjects: ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTIONS; Antarctic; McMurdo Station; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/129/2/319

It is commonly believed that living in polar isolation causes high susceptibility to respiratory illness. At McMurdo Station, a US research base in Antarctica, we tested this belief by comparing, over 36 days (August 31–October 5, 1976), the incidence and severity of respiratory illness in 64 men fi...