your admirers, and we think it only fair that we should pass it along to you. (The young
correspondent does not know that we are doing so.)
“We have already written him that you are well again and back to work. Sincerely yours,
etc.”
The enclosed letter, written in a typically boyish scrawl, reads as follows:
Time, Inc, Durango, Colo.
Dear Editor, June19, 1936
I read a long time ago that Dr. Charles Armstrong was very sick. Since that I have never
heard anything more about him. I cut his picture out because I thought he was very brave
saving other peoples lives. A couple of months ago I went to a show about Louis Pasteur
which made me think about Dr. Armstrong. My name is James Beatty Noland. I am nine
years old and will be in the 5th grade when school starts again in September. The thing I
wanted to know was what happened to Dr. Armstrong because I wanted to be like he was.
Please write me a letter and tell me what happened to him.
Yours very truly
James Beatty Noland
Armstrong apparently replied graciously to this touching letter indicating to his admirer
that he was alive and well.
Since the original discovery, description and early investigations, LCM has
assumed its position in the current hierarchy of virology. It is classified as an Arenavirus
(42). The Arenavirus family, which also includes Lassa fever and the South American
hemorrhagic fevers, is characterized by single stranded RNA, a unique morphology and
the usual employment of rodents as virus reservoirs. The viruses can be divided into two
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