Distracted by a mysterious rash of dying bees, researchers may be overlooking a more insidious pollinator crisis.

Min is an illegal Burmese immigrant living in Thailand who has contracted a mysterious rash.

In September 1999, a mysterious rash of deaths hit Moonbase Alpha.

"It was unfortunate that we had such a mysterious rash of accidents," Mr. Torlakson said.

Nineteen children at a Brooklyn public school were taken to emergency rooms yesterday after a mysterious rash broke out among fifth graders, city health and education officials said.

The couple suffered from mysterious rashes, and the wife was taken to the emergency room more than once, gasping for breath.

After lawyers for the Hispanics lost repeatedly in the courts, a mysterious rash of vandalism and fires broke out in the mid-1970's.

This year, of all years, a mysterious rash affecting schoolchildren in the United States was bound to generate a good deal of attention and anxiety.

(O.K., so there was that mysterious rash he developed at one point.)

The story begins in Dade County in 1984, when several suburban parents found their preschool children suddenly having bad dreams and mysterious rashes.