Title The St Kilda boat cough under the microscope.
Author Stride, P
Journal J R Coll Physicians Edinb Publication Year/Month 2008-Sep
PMID 19227604 PMCID -N/A-
Affiliation 1.Redcliffe Hospital, Redcliffe, Queensland, Australia. peter_stride@health.qld.gov.au.

The inhabitants of St Kilda, a remote archipelago in the Outer Hebrides, suffered from outbreaks of a respiratory tract infection known as the boat cough every time strangers visited their isolated community between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. This condition has always been labelled influenza, but a review of contemporary records and modern microbiological evidence strongly suggests the illness was due to rhinovirus.

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