MAY 12, patients and maladies: flu-like illness

Authors' Note:  Flu-like symptoms are caused by a variety of illnesses, which are mostly transient viral infections. The diffuse muscle aching and mild fever sometimes accompanying the flu may be mimicked by polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR), an inflammatory disease of the elderly (average age 72), cause unknown. PMR responds dramatically to steroid therapy, and is usually self-limited.

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