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Rheumatic fever is viewed as both a classic infectious disease and autoimmune disease. Epidemiology has developed from infectious disease epidemiology to chronic disease epidemiology. Molecular epidemiology is exciting but perhaps the shoe leather epidemiology of early infectious disease epidemiology could be of benefit to all autoimmune disease.