Epidemics
Research from Health Protection Agency Center for Infections provides new data on epidemics
Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, April 21st, 2009
Current study results from the report, 'Was encephalitis lethargica a post-influenzal or some other phenomenon' Time to re-examine the problem,' have been published. "Encephalitis lethargica (EL) was first reported in 1917 in central Europe. It became epidemic in the winter of 1918/1919 concurrently with the pandemic of influenza, and by then had reached Russia and North America," scientists writing in the journal Epidemiology and Infection report.
"It spread throughout the world in epidemic form, mainly in the succeeding winters, up to 1927. By then about 65 000 cases had been reported, although the true number worldwide can only be guessed at. EL mortality was...
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