Darn! I forget where I read the article, it was so long ago, but yes, either it was the 1918 virus or a different one that came along in the 1920’s.
People survived it but gradually were afflicted with Parkinson’s-like symptoms some years later. These were the “Awakenings” people that Dr. Oliver Sacks cut his teeth on in the 1960’s.
However, I don’t know what proportion of survivors contracted the parkinsonian symptoms or how many of them became the extreme, frozen people of the book/movie.
The newly discovered L-dopa wrought miracles but gradually lost it’s effectiveness and brought on nasty side-effects and eventually they were all frozen again.
Or something like that...
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