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You may have read/heard of yesterday's sad demise of Oliver Sacks, a pioneering and unorthodox neurologist and author perhaps best known for the movie Awakenings, dramatising his accounts of his partial success in treating severe cases of encephalitis lethargica.
Also known as 'sleepy sickness' (not to be confused with sleeping sickness carried by testse flies) it was remarkably epidemic in the early 20th century.
Interesting speculation on what may have caused it on Wiki :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encephalitis_lethargica
Also known as 'sleepy sickness' (not to be confused with sleeping sickness carried by testse flies) it was remarkably epidemic in the early 20th century.
Interesting speculation on what may have caused it on Wiki :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encephalitis_lethargica