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November 21, 2023
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Boy’s mosquito bites develop into ‘impetiginous lesions’ that will not heal

A 5-year-old boy is referred from an Army hospital in Panama in the mid-1980s to Brooke Army Medical Center for evaluation of an unrelated problem when his parent asked about a case of several “impetiginous lesions” that will not heal.