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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]
Overview
Historical perspective
On December 13, 1799, George Washington, the United States’ first president, was reported to have had sore throat and hoarseness of voice. At dawn the next day, his conditioned worsened with difficulty in breathing. Few hours later he was found to have respiratory distress. The physicians who attended to him tried all treatment modalities but were unsuccessful and by 10:20 PM was decleared dead of what was most likely due to bacterial epiglottitis. It is likely that if he had lived in recent times, the sequela would have been different.
In the 1980s Haemophilus influenza type b vaccine was introduced. Prior to this,[1] H. influenza was the most common culprit of epiglottitis.
References
- ↑ Schlossberg, David (2015). Clinical infectious disease (Second ed.). p. 202. ISBN 9781107038912.