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The Plan to Control Your Emotions: Cataplexy - Hypocretin - "PBA"
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They went to enough trouble to dig up the 1919 flu Sound familiar ? [ link to www.bookslut.com] Encephalitis lethargica appeared as an epidemic during World War I, spread throughout the world, and disappeared in 1927. Symptoms could include unwakeable sleep as well as insomnia, facial tics, catatonia, Parkinsonism, and extreme behavioral changes. Some patients became violent towards others, or mutilated themselves. While many patients recovered, they often experienced lifelong symptoms or personality changes. Others died or ended up in mental institutions. Difficult to diagnose, with variable symptoms and an unclear vector of transmission, encephalitis lethargica may have affected as many as five million people worldwide -- or perhaps far fewer. Without understanding what causes it and how, doctors can’t predict whether encephalitis lethargica might reemerge in the wake of a new pandemic flu, or what its effects would be, given modern advances in medicine. [ link to www.slate.com] The flu victims remained untouched until 1951, when a team of scientists dug up the bodies, cracked open four cadavers’ rib cages, scooped out chunks of their lungs, and studied the tissue in a lab. But they were unable to recover the virus and threw out the specimens. Nearly 50 years later, scientists dug up another victim from the same site, this time a better preserved, mostly frozen, obese woman, and successfully extracted viral RNA.
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