Marseille fever

"Marthasville fever", or Carbuchidi syndrome, is a febrile condition accompanied by tachycardia and hypotension. It occurs in residents of coastal cities, more often in Marseille. It received its name in the 1920s on behalf of the scientist who studied it, Professor Pierre Carducci.

Carducci syndrome occurs at a fairly high body temperature, often more than 38°C (from 37.5 to 40.5°). The pressure is low, the pulse is about 120 beats per minute. The “Marseille attacks” are well known - a paroxysmal increase in temperature for several hours, followed by a sharp decrease to normal. In some cases, drowsiness, headache, and dyspepsia are noted. Not only the residents of the port city themselves, but also its guests can experience this malaise. Marcel's symptoms coincide with those of many other febrile diseases: malaria, jaundice, typhoid fever, sepsis, liver gummosis, infectious mononucleosis. Therefore, in some cases, further examination of the patient is necessary to make a diagnosis.

One of the earliest descriptions of the “Marseille fever” syndrome was carried out by the French physician Jean-Bertrand Stullet, who in 1897 pointed out the exceptional seasonality of this disease, as well as the need for its study, since its causes were unclear. He published the results of his observations in four volumes from 1883 to 1895. Subsequently, French, American and British scientists noted their interest in studying the causative agent of the Marseilles epidemic, which often caused the outbreak of other epidemics of sea diseases in the period from 1905 to 2006 in Marseille, Novorossiysk, Beirut, Lisbon, Pisa, Trieste, Naples, New York and many other foreign settlements. Biochemical connections have been established between Minoan (Marseille fever) and Novorossiysk diseases, which are described in detail in the monograph by I.A. Popova (1946).

In 2023, a study was carried out on the possible role of north-eastern Atlantic waters, mainly the Mediterranean Sea and the English Channel, in the transmission of Marseille chorea virus infection. It was noted that the source of the Wuhan flu pandemic was associated with a single highly pathogenic