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List of myalgic encephalomyelitis and chronic fatigue syndrome outbreaks
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=== 1930s === ==== [[1934 Los Angeles atypical polio outbreak|1934 - Los Angeles, US]] ==== Epidemic among personnel at L.A. County Hospital, Ruth Protection Home and throughout California, paralleling poliomyelitis, often diagnosed as atypical poliomyelitis, sometimes including arthropathy.<ref name="Gilliam, 1936-38">{{Cite journal | last = Gilliam | first1 = A.G. | authorlink1 = | title = Epidemiological Study Of An Epidemic, Diagnosed As Poliomyelitis, Occurring Among The Personnel Of The Los Angeles County General Hospital During The Summer Of 1934| journal = Public health bulletin, 1936-1938 | volume = | issue = | pages = 231-240| date = 1938 | pmid = | url = http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015022082260;view=1up;seq=617 }}</ref> ==== [[1936 Fond-du-Lac outbreak|1936 - Fond-du-Lac, Wisconsin, US]] ==== An outbreak of "encephalitis" in St. Agnes Convent.<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><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> ==== [[1937 Erstfeld outbreak|1937 - Erstfeld, Switzerland]] ==== In less than two weeks, 130 soldiers stationed in Erstfeld, Switzerland became ill with a disease that was attributed to "[[Abortive poliomyelitis]]."<ref name="Parish, 1978">{{Cite journal | last1 = Parish | first1 = J.G. | authorlink1 = Gordon Parish| title = Early outbreaks of 'epidemic neuromyasthenia'| journal = Postgraduate Medical Journal | volume = 54 | issue = 637 | page = 711-717 | date = November 1978 | pmid = 370810| url = http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/370810}}</ref> ==== [[1937 St. Gallen outbreak|1937 - St. Gallen, Switzerland]] ==== Outbreak in the women's section of a hospital in St Gallen, Switzerland affecting 28 staff and patients. They were diagnosed with "Abortive Poliomyelitis." <ref name="Parish, 1978" /> ==== [[1939 Middlesex outbreak|1939 - Middlesex, England]] ==== Outbreak at Harefield Sanatorium - "Persistent [[myalgia]] following sore throat."<ref name="NewYorker1965" /> ==== [[1939 Degersheim outbreak|1939 - Degersheim, St. Gallen, Switzerland]] ==== Seventy-three cases of [[epidemic neuromyasthenia]] were reported among 800 soldiers stationed in Degersheim, Switzerland.<ref name="Parish, 1978" />
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