Epidemic encephalitis

Epidemic encephalitis is also called encephalitis lethargica. In April 1917, Dr. Constantin von Economo published his clinical and pathological findings to the Vienna Psychiatric Association and proposed it as an independent disease. inflammation. At the end of the First World War, encephalitis A swept across Europe, and about 5 million people were infected. Most of the patients were young, and there were more women than men. The clinical features of the acute phase are fever, lethargy, paralysis of the eye muscles, and excessive dance-like movements. The chronic phase is mainly manifested by Parkinson syndrome.

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