GUIDANCE NOTES - Labour

This disease is characterised by an acute onset of pyrexia, generalized pain and shivering, followed by ulceration of the nasal mucosa with a fetid blood stained discharge which rapidly progresses to necrosis of the nasal septum and ulceration of the pharynx, larynx and mouth. The skin of the nose and face becomes red and the lymph glands swollen. ................
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