内容简介：It was a cloudyday in the fall of 1977,and the sounds ofscreaming children on a grassy field in ldBethpage,New York,could be heard fromblocks away. Boys and girls at the elementaryschool were contracting a mysterious andhighly contagious illness at an alarmingrate. With every passing minute,anotherchild became infected and then immediatelywas shunned by their peers-cast aside bythose they had called their friends justmoments earlier.