Sporadic Cases of Encephalitis in Rural Bengal

9th January, 1949.?The patient, M. M., age 21 years, of A^illage Singhaguri near Sumudragarh, district Burdwan, a healthy young cultivator, came to sell straw in Nabadwip. About noon he went to purchase something in the bazar after selling the straw, when he was, according to bystanders, seized with convulsions and fell down on the road-side. The convulsions persisted for two hours, after which he became unconscious. He lay there throughout the night. His people arrived the next morning on search, found him