Tag Archive for PRO/EDR> Influenza (38): vaccine and narcolepsy, new hypothesis
PRO/EDR> Influenza (38): vaccine and narcolepsy, new hypothesis
Influenza -- Worldwide/UnknownInfluenza has been linked with other sleeping disorders, too. For example, after the epidemic of Spanish flu in 1918, there was an increase in people suffering a "sleeping sickness" known as encephalitis lethargica.An unusual increase in narcolepsy cases in Europe was linked to a new flu vaccine used there, and now researchers may have figured out why: A protein in the vaccine appears to mimic one in the brain that plays a role in the sleep disorder.People with narcolepsy Read more [...]
