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But I had a feeling that brain fever might’ve just been another way of saying uncooperative, or outspoken, or brilliant.

“A shock, and after brain fever so soon! That was not good. What kind of a shock was it?”

More than 150 children have now died in an outbreak of the disease, which is also known as "brain fever".

Chernykh’s brother, who helped extinguish fire bombs dropped by Nazi planes, got infected with brain fever and died in a hospital.

The child contracted the herpes simplex virus at Watford General hospital, which led to a brain fever.