Well, sadly, encephalitis lethargica wasn't the first neurological epidemic of its kind and—if we don't crack it—we won't be ...

This was encephalitis lethargica, the “forgotten epidemic” described in Carlson's book. It has been estimated that it left about 500,000 people dead or disabled. Roughly one-third died acutely ...

Authorities in Assam Friday sounded a health alert after 15 people died of Japanese encephalitis and hundreds more were down with the mosquito-borne disease in the past two weeks. Authorities in ...

is taking the fall for the epidemic. The common ground between litchi and encephalitis is Muzaffarpur, the centre of the outbreak and the country’s biggest litchi producing district.

Cameron Webb and the Department of Medical Entomology, NSW Health Pathology and University of Sydney, have been engaged by a wide range of insect repellent and insecticide manufacturers to provide ...

But usually disease was already rife — in 18 outbreaks of infectious jaundice, eight each of poliomyelitis and encephalitis, and odd instances of rarer ills. The most unusual epidemic of 1952 ...

Recalling the crisis that plagued the region for decades, CM Yogi noted that encephalitis once claimed ... which played a ...