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The prevention of recurrences is very useful indeed to patients after a first attack of rheumatic fever but will never, by definition, eradicate the disease from the population at large. Moreover, many children suffer severe, irreversible heart damage as a result of their first attack of rheumatic fever: to them, the triumphs of secondary prophylaxis are no consolation. Hence the importance of preventing first attacks (primary prevention).
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© 1981 A. Taranta and M. Markowitz
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Taranta, A., Markowitz, M. (1981). Prevention of first attacks of rheumatic fever. In: Rheumatic Fever. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7171-5_12
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