(It is now believed that about 25,000 Finns were killed or missing in the "Winter War" with Russia. The Russians are believed to have lost as many as 167,000 men.)

(The girl, Mary Ellen Reardon, was the victim of lethargic encephalitis, also known as sleeping sickness. The 1990 movie Awakenings, starring Robin Williams, was based on people who had this type of illness. In reality, Dr. Oliver Sack studied people in the 1960's who had been "sleeping" since an encephalitis epidemic between 1917 and 1928. Mary remained in this condition until her death at age 25 on July 17, 1961.)

Excerpt from a Apr. 9, 1991 Washington Post article by Robin Herman;
"...no cure or treatment was found for the type of sleeping illness portrayed in "Awakenings." The virus that caused lethargic encephalitis, an inflammation of the brain, was never clearly identified. During the epidemic, which occurred at the same time as the Great Flu Pandemic of 1918, the illness struck between 5 million and 10 million people worldwide, killing half of them fairly quickly. Many of the sleeping-sickness survivors seemed to recover fully, only to be incapacitated years later by a paralyzing Parkinson's-like syndrome. Curiously, tissue from the encephalitis patients never showed evidence that they had had the flu. Epidemiologists still cannot say whether the two epidemics were connected.']

After conducting some basic research on line, I have found no information that indicates that a cure or effective treatment has yet to be found.

(This report in in line with the German assessment of the damage.)

(The sentence for Laurel H. Crawford, who was convicted of killing his wife and three children by sending them over a cliff in a car in Dec. 1939.) He also killed a neighbor, but was not prosecuted for that crime.)