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Look at originals of these key references to write this article. Let's go more in depth than the Wikipedia article does. Note – do not direct copy and paste the below. This is from Wikipedia. --[[User:JenB|JenB]] ([[User talk:JenB|talk]]) 05:34, 27 November 2015 (PST) '''Akureyri disease''' (also called Iceland disease) is used for an outbreak of fatigue symptoms in [[Iceland]].<ref>{{cite journal | author = Blattner R | title =Benign myalgic encephalomyelitis (Akureyri disease, Iceland disease) |journal=J. Pediatr. |volume=49 |issue=4 |pages=504–6 | year = 1956 |pmid=13358047 |doi=10.1016/S0022-3476(56)80241-2}}</ref> The outbreak of a disease simulating [[poliomyelitis]] took place in the town of [[Akureyri]] in Northern Iceland in the winter of 1948-1949. The center of the [[epidemic]] was in the main secondary boarding school. The predominant symptoms were tiredness and exhaustion. Since the outbreak of the disease the sufferers were often thought to suffer from [[psychiatric disorder]] such as [[hysteria]].<ref>{{cite journal | author = Líndal E, Bergmann S, Thorlacius S, Stefánsson JG | title =Anxiety disorders: a result of long-term chronic fatigue - the psychiatric characteristics of the sufferers of Iceland disease |journal=Acta Neurol Scand |volume=96 |issue=4 |pages=158–162 | year = 1997|doi=10.1111/j.1600-0404.1997.tb00259.x}}</ref> The disease was first diagnosed as poliomyelitis and the first case was reported on September 25, 1948 in Akureyri. During the third and fourth week of November it became evident that this epidemic was different from epidemics of poliomyelitis. The epidemic lasted for more than 3 months and the total number of reported cases was 488.<ref>http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/52/2/222.extract A disease epidemic in Iceland Simulating PolioMyelitis (Am. J. Epidemiol. (1950) 52 (2): 222-238)</ref> ---- Moved this from page – it references a 1955 epidemic but doesn't really explain what it was and is confusing on a page re: the 1948-1949 epidemic When an American airman who was affected in the 1955 epidemic and returned home, a similar secondary epidemic occurred in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, U.S.A. (Hart, 1969: Henderson and Shelokov, 1959).
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