Epidemic Neuromyasthenia

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Abstract
AN obscure epidemic illness occurred in a small Florida community in the spring of 1956. It was characterized principally by fatigue, headache, nuchal pain, alterations in emotional status and mentation, nausea and vomiting, paresthesias, aching muscular pain and a prolonged, relapsing course. Symptoms were protean, and the problems of case and epidemic delineation of this illness were manifold.The entity is similar to that described by various authors, particularly in recent years, from many different parts of the world. It has been termed "Iceland disease,"1 "benign myalgic encephalomyelitis,"2 "Akureyri disease"3 and "epidemic vegetative neuritis."4 It is reported as having occurred . . .

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