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1936 Fond-du-Lac outbreak
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== Onset == An early recorded outbreak of ME was in Fond-du-Lac, Wisconsin, US. Recorded by the US Public Health Service,<ref name="Fond-du-Lac">{{citation | last =Armstong | first = Charles A. | title = Report to the Surgeon General, US Public Health Service, of the investigation of an outbreak of "Encephalitis" in the St. Agnes Convent, Fond-du-Lac, Wisconsin. | date = 1936}}</ref> the outbreak struck Saint Agnes Convent and was recorded as "encephalitis".<ref name="Hydebook">{{Cite book | title = The Clinical and scientific basis of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome | last = Hyde | first = Byron | publisher = Nightingale Research Foundation| year = 1992|isbn=0969566204|location=Ogdensburg, NY | pages = X}}</ref><ref name="NewYorker1965">{{Cite news | publisher = The New Yorker |volume =41 |issue =Part 6| page =208 | title = In The Bughouse | date = Nov 19, 1965 | last = Roueché | first = Berton | url = http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1965/11/27/in-the-bughouse }}</ref> Fifty-three young women were infected, all novices and convent candidates<ref>{{Cite book | title = Medical Etiology, Assessment, and Treatment of Chronic Fatigue and Malaise | last = Patarca-Montero | first = Roberto| publisher = Haworth Press| year = 2004|isbn=078902196X|location= | pages = 6-7}}</ref> == Symptoms == *[[nausea]]/[[vomiting]] *diplopia or [[blurred vision]] *impaired mentation *[[paresthesia]]s affecting hands and feet *[[headache]] *[[neck pain]] *[[chest pain]] *[[back pain]] *limb pain *[[sore throat]] (prodomal) *fatiguability/malaise<ref name="Henderson1959">{{Cite journal | title = Epidemic Neuromyasthenia - Clinical Syndrome?|url = https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJM195904092601506 | last = Henderson | first = Donald A. | last2 =Shelokov | first2 =Alexis | date =April 9, 1959|journal =N Engl J Med |volume = 260 |issue =15 | pages = 757-764|doi= 10.1056/NEJM195904092601506}} </ref> == Findings == == Epidemiology == == Prognosis == == See also == *[[Epidemic myalgic encephalomyelitis]] *[[List of myalgic encephalomyelitis and chronic fatigue syndrome outbreaks]] == References == {{reflist}} [[Category:Outbreaks]] [[Category:Outbreaks in the 1930s]] [[Category:Outbreaks in the United States of America]] [[Category:History]]
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