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For a long time, it was seen as a new form of polio

Unrest • 2017
For a long time, it was seen as a new form of polio

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For a long time, it was seen as a new form of polio.
Duration
6 seconds
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23
Timestamp in Movie
00:27:44
Uploaded
Oct 29, 2025
Genres
documentary, drama, history
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When Harvard Ph.D. student Jennifer Brea is struck down by a fever that leaves her bedridden, she sets out on a virtual journey to document her story as she fights a disease that medicine forgot.
And later, encephalomyelitis, which means inflammation of the brain and spinal cord - Unrest 00:13
And later, encephalomyelitis, which means inflammation of th...
A mystery disease has struck the town of Incline Village, Nevada. - Unrest 00:05
A mystery disease has struck the town of Incline Village, Ne...
Doctors have diagnosed more than two hundred cases of the same illness in this area. - Unrest 00:06
Doctors have diagnosed more than two hundred cases of the sa...
In all of my years of training and practice, I've never seen anything quite like this. - Unrest 00:06
In all of my years of training and practice, I've never...
She's talking out of the lens? Okay. - Unrest 00:06
She's talking out of the lens? Okay.
>> Jennifer: Do you remember the beginning of the outbreak - Unrest 00:09
>> Jennifer: Do you remember the beginning of the...
I can recall to this day those moments. - Unrest 00:05
I can recall to this day those moments.
One was an epidemic of apparent mono in a girl’s basketball team. - Unrest 00:07
One was an epidemic of apparent mono in a girl’s basketball ...
And by July, August we had over two hundred cases of adult viral-like syndrome. - Unrest 00:09
And by July, August we had over two hundred cases of adult v...
It wasn't that fact they were showing up sick, it was the fact that they remained sick as the years went by. - Unrest 00:08
It wasn't that fact they were showing up sick, it was t...
They not only remained sick, their sickness actually evolved into something different than it was at the beginning. - Unrest 00:09
They not only remained sick, their sickness actually...
Now they were complaining of severe and debilitating fatigue. - Unrest 00:06
Now they were complaining of severe and debilitating...
They began to complain of strange cognitive complaints. - Unrest 00:06
They began to complain of strange cognitive complaints.
We were certain we were looking at something that we have never ever heard of before - Unrest 00:09
We were certain we were looking at something that we have ne...
>> Jennifer: When the CDC came out to investigate, they looked at patient’s charts, - Unrest 00:11
>> Jennifer: When the CDC came out to investigate, the...
Doctor William Reeves, that man in charge of investigating Chronic Fatigue for the CDC, - Unrest 00:16
Doctor William Reeves, that man in charge of investigating C...
And three, there are no clusters. So when asked about the illness at Lake Tahoe, he said that was hysteria. - Unrest 00:09
And three, there are no clusters. So when asked about the il...
Thirty years later we don't seem any closer. - Unrest 00:06
Thirty years later we don't seem any closer.
We know that ME can be triggered by viruses and bacterial infections. - Unrest 00:06
We know that ME can be triggered by viruses and bacterial in...
But we don't know if the infection hides in places where it's hard to measure, like the brain. - Unrest 00:09
But we don't know if the infection hides in places wher...