The sleeper pandemic that emerged with the 'Spanish flu'

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Between the years of 1917 and 1920, two pandemics coincided that devastated the planet and its human inhabitants. One was the flu, which killed between 50 and 100 million people. The other was called encephalitis lethargica (EL), something unknown until then. It did not kill that many, perhaps a million, but its manifestations were even more frightening: it immobilized the majority, it especially affected young people, provoking criminal behavior in children, and it kept thousands of adults in a dormant state for years. Those who woke up did so with after-effects reminiscent of Parkinson's. Just as it came it left and its origin is still unknown today. Faced with the proliferation of neurological disorders associated with the coronavirus, neurologists have looked back a century to that sleeper pandemic.

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