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==Course & prognosis == In 1955, neurologist Kjartan Gudmundsson reexamined 39 patients affected by the outbreak. He found that 31% were free from objective clinical signs and only 13% considered themselves completely recovered.<ref name=":2" /> Of the most severely affected, only 25% had completely recovered, 52% had residual muscle tenderness, and 65% had objective [[Nervous system|neurological]] signs. Many patients still complained of nervousness, abnormal [[Muscle fatigability|fatiguability of muscles]], [[Myalgia|muscle pain]], [[Insomnia|sleeplessness]] and [[Memory problems|loss of memory]]. Of those mildly affected in 1948 only 44% had fully recovered, 50% had muscular tenderness, and 19% had residual objective neurological signs.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal | last = Parish | first = JG | author-link = Gordon Parish | date = 1978 | title = Early outbreaks of 'epidemic neuromyasthenia' | url = https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/370810 | journal = Postgraduate Medical Journal | volume = 54 | pages = 711-7|via=}}</ref><ref name=":2" /> There were no deaths.<ref name=":2" /> In 1988, [[Byron Hyde]] published a long term follow-up in [[the Lancet]], 40 years after the initial outbreak. He managed to examine 10 patients, of which only 2 reported a full recovery.<ref>{{Cite journal | last = Hyde | first = B. | author-link = Byron Hyde | last2 = Bergmann | first2 = S. | date = 1988-11-19 | title = Akureyri disease (myalgic encephalomyelitis), forty years later |url =https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2903396 | journal = Lancet (London, England) | volume = 2 | issue = 8621 | pages = 1191β1192|issn=0140-6736|pmid=2903396|quote=|via=}}</ref>
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