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From: "Gerda" <>
Subject: Re: [Spanish flu/Parkinsons reopened]
Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 11:35:57 +0200
References: <20011201033833.26104.qmail@cpdvg203.cms.usa.net>


Dear Keith, Maureen,

Not splitting hairs, really. I am not very clued up with medical conditions
and grateful for any bit of information. It may well be that the treatment
for Parkinson's disease if it was really Parkinsonism may have aggravated
the condition. Am I right?

Whichever, the fast deteriorating health of my grandfather which coincided
with the depression, held both economic and cultural implications for the
family. Thy lost the 100 year-old family business in Workum, Friesland and
relocated to Holland, where the children married 'foreigners' (non Frisians)
and scattered all over the country and later the world.

Gerda

South African links:
http://www.e-family.co.za
http://www.geocities.com/sa_stamouers/

----- Original Message -----
From: Keith Meintjes <>
To: <SOUTH-AFRICA-L>
Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2001 5:38 AM
Subject: Re: [Spanish flu/Parkinsons reopened]


> Splitting hairs, but the result of the 1918 flu was Parkinsonism -
symptoms
> similar to Parkinson's, but not Parkinson's itself.
>
> To the victim, I am sure this distinction did not matter.
>
> In the same way, I imagine that encephalitis, whether viral or bacterial,
may
> result in symptoms similar to any number of nervous system disorders.
>
> Keith
> ================
>
>
> "Brady" <> wrote:
> Hi Listers
>
> I've come across an interesting snippet that follows on the debate we had
> some time back on the possible link between getting Parkinsons & having
> survived the Spanish flu.



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