The name is derived from the town of Borna in Saxony, Germany, which suffered an epidemic of the disease in horses in 1885.
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In 1990, Janice E. Clements and colleagues reported in the journal Science that antibodies to a protein encoded by the Borna virus genome are found in the blood of patients with behavioral disorders.
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The Borna disease was first described in 1885 as "heated head disease" of cavalry horses in 1885 in the town of Borna, Germany.