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The Doctors Who ‘Caught’ St. Louis Encephalitis

THE QUEENS COURIER/PHOTO BY SAM KATZ

At a Flushing Hospital news conference on Tuesday, Drs. Rick Conetta, Deborah Asnis and Jeffrey Applebaum relate how they discovered the virus.
While most of northern Queens worries about getting St. Louis encephalitis from mosquitoes, three physicians at Flushing Hospital Medical Center were thrilled to have caught it under a microscope.