SLEEPY SICKNESS
EPIDEMIC IN AMERICAN STATES TWEHTY-TWO DEATHS IN ST. LOUIS Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. ST. LOUIS, August 24. (Received August 25, at 9 a.m.) The toll from the epidemic of sleepy sickness has reached twenty-two in St. Louis and its environs. This puzzling disease is also reported in the bordering State of Illinois. Previously cases in Oklahoma and Kansas, as well as in other Missouri towns, had been diagnosed as encephalitis lethargica, as the disease is known in medical circles.
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Evening Star, Issue 21499, 25 August 1933, Page 7
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80SLEEPY SICKNESS Evening Star, Issue 21499, 25 August 1933, Page 7
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