“…Jordan, in a review on epidemic influenza (23), wrote: Until a coincidence or close sequence of the two diseases has been more convincingly demonstrated, it seems premature to discuss the existence of a neurotropic influenza virus or to speculate on the activation of an encephalitis virus by an influenza virus, or on the nature of the encephalitic component of a complex grippe virus. Although written in 1927, the intriguing questions he raised still cannot be adequately addressed (24,25).…”