In the past four months a new syndrome has caused more than 100 deaths in Spain. The most striking feature is a toxic-allergic pneumonopathy with respiratory distress and radiological evidence of interstitial (occasionally alveolar) exudation. Other features are fever, headache, nausea, muscular and
The initial symptoms of a new multisystem disease probably caused by ingestion of denatured rapeseed oil were acute pleuropneumopathy, fever, headache, exanthems, myalgia, and eosinophilia. Later features were severe myalgia and thromboembolic accidents. The present phase of the illness is typified
The Toxic Syndrome (TS) caused by ingestion of adulterated rapeseed oil in Spain is a new disease of multisystemic character whose aetiology and pathogenesis remains unknown. The most prominent pathological feature is a peculiar non-necrotizing vasculitis, that affects mainly the intima and involves
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