Nearly all reports on nonfatal cases describe severe clinical syndromes with tetraparesis, bulbar palsy, and coma.

With the introduction of CT and MRI there was an increasing number of reports on nonfatal cases of CPM.

The glands enlarged twelve hours after the fever began, and sometimes suppurated in nonfatal cases in a short time.

The police had determined the caliber of the weapon used in 183 of the fatal cases and 184 of the nonfatal cases.