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==Course & prognosis == "The illness lasted for weeks or months and characteristically was marked by remissions and relapses. Many convalescent patients were forced to take to bed and had exacerbations at the time of their [[Menstrual cycle|menstrual periods]] or when they attempted to return to normal activity."<ref name=":0" /> Thirteen months after onset of the first case, 12 patients remaining in the convent were examined using functional muscle testing developed for the 1954 trial of [[poliomyelitis]] vaccine, only one was completely normal. 11 had scattered weakness of a mild degree. By June, 1962, one year after onset of the epidemic, 9 nuns had recovered, 1 had almost recovered, 13 were still ill, and 3 had transferred elsewhere.Β
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