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Sydenham's chorea is an autoimmune disease that results from childhood infection with Group A beta-haemolytic Streptococcus. It is reported to occur in 20–30% of people with acute rheumatic fever and is one of the major criteria for it, although it sometimes occurs in isolation.
Dancing mania on a pilgrimage to the church at Sint-Jans-Molenbeek, a 1642 engraving by Hendrick Hondius after a 1564 drawing by Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Dancing mania (also known as dancing plague, choreomania, St. John's Dance, tarantism and St. Vitus' Dance) was a social phenomenon that may have had biological causes, which occurred primarily in mainland Europe between the 14th and 17th ...
St. Vitus' dance (1518) is the outbreak of the dancing plague that was most thoroughly documented, and is the outbreak discussed the most in-depth by Hecker. [6] Hecker considered the dancing plague a form of psychological illness, specifically a form of mass hysteria brought about by human sympathy. [2]
"The St. Vitus Dance", an instrumental by Horace Silver from Blowin' the Blues Away, 1959 Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Saint Vitus' dance .
Engraving by Hendrik Hondius portraying three people affected by the plague. Work based on original drawing by Pieter Brueghel.. The dancing plague of 1518, or dance epidemic of 1518 (French: Épidémie dansante de 1518), was a case of dancing mania that occurred in Strasbourg, Alsace (modern-day France), in the Holy Roman Empire from July 1518 to September 1518.
The symptoms of St. Vitus Dance and meningitis are somewhat different, but both can be contracted from the same strain of bacteria through saliva. Both of Behan's children, Henrietta and Albert, were ill with meningitis around 1877, and in July of that year, Henrietta died from the disease. [26]: 47–48
Saint Vitus Bar, the legendary Brooklyn heavy metal venue that has hosted countless up-and-coming bands as well as special club shows by Megadeth, Anthrax, Deafheaven, Killing Joke, Carcass ...
Huntington's disease is a neurodegenerative disease and most common inherited cause of chorea. The condition was formerly called Huntington's chorea but was renamed because of the important non-choreic features including cognitive decline and behavioural change.