many people believe this woman perpetuated a hoax.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2N1I...eature=related

i for one carefully check and double check everything i post and state whether it is opinion or fact and i would think a health care professional would be even more careful.

as far as flu increasing your chances of getting p.d., it appears there might be a link but there is no conclusive evidence that flu vaccines increases your chances of getting p.d., in fact it might decrease it by keeping you from getting the flu.

as far as the connection between the flu and the "awakenings" patients, my interpretation is they suffered from encephalitis, not the flu. maybe the flu made them more succeptible. i admittedly haven't done a lot of research so i may be wrong.

"An epidemic of von Economo's encephalopathy in parts of Europe and in North America was recorded from about 1915 to 1926. A couple of decades later some of the survivors of the event descended into a catatonic state which Sacks correctly identified as Parkinsonian. "

"The overlap of the initial outbreak with the 1918 Spanish flu led some people to conclude infection with that virulent virus was the trigger for the illness"

http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories...insons_090810/
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