Sleepy Hollow, Kazakhstan
RT Documentary 2014
A small village of Kalachi, 200 miles from Kazhakhstan's capital, Astana, recently hit the headlines for a strange occurrence. Over the past 2 years, unofficially, 200 people have been affected by a benign sleeping disease. People of different age groups, toddlers to the elderly have had the sudden urge to sleep after feeling heavy in the legs. They would sleep unarousable for one complete week and would recover without any morbidity save for initial staggering 'drunken-like' gait.
Examination by the medical personnel did not reveal any neurological symptoms except for transient cerebral edema on CT scans. Biochemical analyses, toxicological studies and samples of water, soil and agricultural thus far had failed to pinpoint any anomaly.
There is a disused uranium mine in the village but Geiger-Muller counts were normal. The only aberrant finding is marginal high level of lead in the water. Experts are still working on the cause of this bizarre disease.
RT Documentary 2014
A small village of Kalachi, 200 miles from Kazhakhstan's capital, Astana, recently hit the headlines for a strange occurrence. Over the past 2 years, unofficially, 200 people have been affected by a benign sleeping disease. People of different age groups, toddlers to the elderly have had the sudden urge to sleep after feeling heavy in the legs. They would sleep unarousable for one complete week and would recover without any morbidity save for initial staggering 'drunken-like' gait.Examination by the medical personnel did not reveal any neurological symptoms except for transient cerebral edema on CT scans. Biochemical analyses, toxicological studies and samples of water, soil and agricultural thus far had failed to pinpoint any anomaly.
There is a disused uranium mine in the village but Geiger-Muller counts were normal. The only aberrant finding is marginal high level of lead in the water. Experts are still working on the cause of this bizarre disease.
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