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Asleep: The Forgotten Epidemic that Remains One of Medicine's Greatest Mysteries | Molly Caldwell Crosby
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A fascinating look at a bizarre, forgotten epidemic from the national bestselling author of The American Plague. In 1918, a world war raged, and a lethal strain of influenza circled the globe. In the midst of all this death, a bizarre disease appeared in Europe. Eventually known as encephalitis lethargica, or sleeping sickness, it spread worldwide, leaving millions dead or locked in institutions. Then, in 1927, it disappeared as suddenly as it arrived. Asleep, set in 1920s and '30s New York, follows a group of neurologists through hospitals and asylums as they try to solve this epidemic and treat its victims-who learned the worst fate was not dying of it, but surviving it.
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Skyrimir
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Weird to want to read a book about a pandemic in a pandemic...this is one I never heard about. It‘s really interesting so far.

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SMM
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"One of the few pleasing and uplifting impressions furnished by the human race, faced with an elemental disaster, it forgets its cultural muddle-headedness and all its internal problems and enmities and recalls the great common task of preserving itself against the superior might of nature." Freud