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“One would prefer a physical trouble which would produce outspoken feeblemindedness with its limited range of harmful effects to this encephalitis which may produce an intellectual, tormented and cruel monster out of a gentle girl or boy.”

Encephalitis Encephalitis Lethargica

Book:Asleep: The Forgotten Epidemic that Remains One of Medicine's Greatest Mysteries

Source: Asleep: The Forgotten Epidemic that Remains One of Medicine's Greatest Mysteries

“Nature had found the perfect place to hide the yellow fever virus. It seeded itself and grew in the blood, blooming yellow and running red.”

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Book:The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History

Source: The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History

“In the middle of the cemetery is a grassy plane, strangely vacant. There are no granite tombs or crumbling concrete, just a sun-washed treeless patch of green known as "No Man's Land." Here 1,500 unidentified bodies are buried. At one time, their skin burned with yellow fever; now they lie in a cool, dark place where long ago their arms and legs, hands and feet, were intertwined for eternity.”

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Book:The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History

Source: The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History

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