More+About+Encephalitis+Lethargica

toc =What Are The Symptoms of Encephalitis Lethargica= The symptoms of EL are often blurred or doubled vision, a very high fever, difficulty speaking or hearing and in acute cases people who have encephalitis lethargica can go into a coma like state and they can stay like that for a week to years. Some people say the victims never recover.

Treatment of EL
Dopaminergic medicine are often helpful in the treatment of EL. Normally though the treatment is symptomatic.

What Causes EL?
The causes aren't definate, but it might be caused by two typanosomes (microscopic protozoan parasites).

**Time Line**
There isn't much information on times of things but this is what we have put together. 1918 End of WWI start of influenza epidemic. 1919 Start of EL epidemic 1935 Start of WWII 1942 End of EL epdemic

There could be an epidemic after the Swine flu.
There is widly considered that in Italy durring 1889-1890 there was a pandemic called la nona meaning sleepy sickness.

Von Economo who first desribed the disease in 1915.

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