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===1950s=== ==== [[1950 Louisville outbreak|1950 - Louisville, Kentucky, US]] ==== Outbreak in the Nurse's Training School of St. Joseph Infirmary, later described as "epidemic neuromyasthenia." ==== [[1950 Upper New York State outbreak|1950 - Upper New York State, US]] ==== Outbreak described as resembling the "Iceland Disease...simulating Acute Anterior Poliomyelitis." ==== [[1952 London outbreak|1952 - London, England]] ==== Outbreak at Middlesex Hospital Nurses' Home described as "Encephalomyelitis associated with Poliomyelitis Virus." ==== [[1952 Copenhagen outbreak| 1952 - Copenhagen, Denmark]] ==== Outbreak described as "epidemic myositis." ==== [[1952 Florida outbreak|1952 - Lakeland, Florida, US]] ==== Outbreak described as epidemic neuromyasthenia. ==== [[1953 Coventry outbreak|1953 - Coventry and Coventry District, England]] ==== "An illness resembling Poliomyelitis observed in nurses." ==== [[1953 Maryland outbreak|1953 - Rockville, Maryland, US]] ==== Chestnut Lodge Hospital student nurses described with poliomyelitis-like epidemic neuromyasthenia. ==== [[1953 Jutland outbreak|1953 - Jutland, Denmark]] ==== Outbreak of "Epidemic encephalitis with vertigo." ==== [[1954 Florida outbreak|1954 - Tallahassee, Florida, US]] ==== Bond JO. A new clinical entity? Lancet 1956; 2:256. ==== [[1954 Seward outbreak|1954 - Seward, Alaska]] ==== Outbreak described as "Benign Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (Iceland Disease)."<ref name="Deisher1957">{{Cite journal |last = Deisher | first = J.B. | date = 1957| title = Benign myalgic encephalomyelitis (Iceland disease) in Alaska|journal =Northwest medicine|volume =56|issue =12|pages = 1451-1456 | url = http://www.hhs.gov/advcomcfs/meetings/presentations/benignmyalgic_pdf.pdf |archive-date=2014-03-24 |archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/3919/20140324194903/http://www.hhs.gov/advcomcfs/meetings/presentations/benignmyalgic_pdf.pdf |url-status=dead}}</ref> ==== [[1954 Berlin outbreak|1954 - Berlin, Germany]] ==== Among the British Army, a "further outbreak of a disease resembling poliomyelitis." ==== [[1954 Liverpool outbreak|1954 - Liverpool, England]] ==== Outbreak among medical and nursing staff in a Liverpool Hospital. ==== [[Dalston|1954 - Dalston, Cumbria, England]] ==== "...an unusual disease seen in epidemic and sporadic form in general practice in 1955 and subsequent years." ==== [[1954 Johannesburg outbreak|1954 - Johannesburg]] ==== ==== [[1955 Perth outbreak|1955 - Perth, Australia]] ==== "[[Virus]] epidemic in recurrent waves." ==== [[1955 Wales outbreak|1955 - Gilfach Goch, Wales]] ==== Outbreak of Benign encephalomyelitis. ==== [[1955 Durban outbreak|1955 - Durban and Durban City, South Africa]] ==== Outbreak among nurses at Addington Hospital called "The Durban Mystery Disease" describing neuromuscular dysfunction, and epidemic myalgic encephalomyelopathy, including sporadic cases in Johannesburg of a outbreak resembling poliomyelitis. ==== 1955 β North of England ==== ==== [[1955 Segbwema outbreak|1955-56 - Segbwema, Sierra Leone]] ==== An outbreak of encephalomyelitis. ==== [[1955 Iceland outbreak|1955-56 - Patreksfordur and Thorshofn, Iceland]] ==== Unusual response to poliomyelitis vaccination. ==== [[1955 Royal Free Hospital outbreak|1955-1957 - Royal Free Hospital outbreak, London, England]] ==== Famous outbreak of benign myalgic encephalomyelitis simulating poliomyelitis, beginning among a residential home for nurses at the [[Royal Free Hospital]].<ref name="Ramsay1957">{{Cite journal |last = Ramsay|first = A.M. | authorlink = Melvin Ramsay | date = 1957| title = Encephalomyelitis in North West London. An Endemic infection simulating Poliomyelitis and Hysteria|journal=Lancet|volume=273|issue=7007|pages=1196-1200 | url = https://www.sciencedirect.com/sdfe/pdf/download/eid/1-s2.0-S0140673657901630/first-page-pdf |doi=10.1016/s0140-6736(57)90163-0|pmid=13492606}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last = Geffen | first = Dennis | authorlink = | last2 = Tracy | first2 = Susan M. | authorlink2 = | date = 1957-10-19 | title = An Outbreak of Acute Infective Encephalomyelitis in a Residential Home for Nurses in 1956|url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1962504/pdf/brmedj03125-0022.pdf | journal=British Medical Journal|volume=2|issue=5050 | pages = 904β906|doi=10.1136/bmj.2.5050.904|issn=0007-1447|pmc=1962504|pmid=13472003|access-date=|quote=|via=}}</ref> ==== [[1956 Ridgefield outbreak|1956 - Ridgefield, Connecticut, US]] ==== An epidemic of neuromyasthenia. ==== [[1956 Punta Gorda outbreak|1956 - Punta Gorda, Florida, US]] ==== An outbreak of epidemic neuromyasthenia. ==== [[1956 Lancashire outbreak|1956 - Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire, England]] ==== Outbreak described as "lymphocytic meningo-encephalitis with myalgia and rash," "An outbreak of a disease believed to have been cause by Echo 9 virus," with other varying descriptions. ==== [[1956 Massachusetts outbreak|1956 - Pittsfield, Williamstown, Massachusetts, US]] ==== Outbreak of "epidemic neuromyasthenia" later described as benign myalgic encephalomyelitis. (Included in this summary are sporadic cases in Hygiea, Sweden, with descriptions of encephalitis, meningitis or poliomyelitis; [[Coxsackie B]] and [[Echovirus]] infections; benign myalgic encephalomyelitis.) ==== [[1956 Coventry outbreak|1956-57 - Coventry, England]] ==== Outbreak described as epidemic malaise and benign myalgic encephalomyelitis. ==== [[1957 South Australia outbreak|1957 - Brighton, South Australia]] ==== Outbreak described as "Coxsackie, Echo Virus meningitis and myalgic encephalomyelitis", "Epidemic myalgic encephalomyelitis," and "Benign myalgic encephalomyelitis." ==== [[1958 Athens outbreak|1958 - Athens, Greece]] ==== An outbreak of benign myalgic encephalomyelitis in a nurse's school, "periostitis and arthropathy noted." (Included in this summary is an outbreak of benign myalgic encephalomyelitis in Switzerland.) ==== [[1958 London SW outbreak|1958-59 - S.W. London, England]] ==== Reports of sporadic cases of myalgic encephalomyelitis. ==== [[1959 Newcastle outbreak|1959 - Newcastle upon Tyne, England]] ==== Outbreak of benign myalgic encephalomylitis. ==== [[1959 London NW outbreak|1959 - N.W. London, England]] ==== Reports of sporadic cases of influenza-like illness. ==== [[1959 England outbreak|1959 - England]] ==== Article describing sporadic cases and "The psychiatric sequelae of Benign Myalgic Encephalomyelitis."
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