Sometimes the disease lingers for a year or so, causing recurrent attacks that gradually become milder.

The arthritis flares often recur, but the symptoms may be less severe in recurrent attacks.

Add to this an account of his recurrent attacks of melancholia, and the patient is clearly revealed.

If the mother develops a recurrent attack just before giving birth, her antibodies will protect the child from this severe infection.

Some felt the assault must have been their fault, and others feared they could not prevent a recurrent attack.

He contracted malaria there and for the next five years suffered recurrent attacks of the illness.

"But unless someone has a compromised immune system, we didn't think they would actually have a recurrent attack," Moore says.

"Clearly most recurrent attacks are occurring in people with healthy immune systems," she says.

During his entire career, Beardsley had recurrent attacks of the disease that would end it.

However, penicillin has been effective in preventing recurrent attacks of rheumatic fever.