Eight weird epidemic diseases in the world
There have been some strange epidemics in the world. These eight strange epidemics are: narcolepsy encephalitis, Kazakhstan sleeping sickness, dancing disease, June beetle disease, Mogilons disease, Tanganyika laughter disease, nodding disease, LeRoy convulsions. Does it feel strange? If you want to know more, please click on me!
narcolepsy encephalitis 1915-1926)
Probably at the same time as the deadly Spanish influenza (1918-1920) was raging, there was a widespread disease that many people had forgotten. It is called narcolepsy encephalitis. At its worst, it killed one million people, and millions of people suffered varying degrees of paralysis. Its symptoms include sore throat and epilepsy. Eventually, infected patients will fall into a coma or even die, with a mortality rate of as high as 40%. But after it mysteriously appeared, it quietly disappeared in 1926. No one knows the cause of the disease and there are no drugs to treat it.
Dance disease 1518) In July 1518, a strange dance disease suddenly appeared in Strasbourg, a town now in France. It started with a woman named Frau Troffea, who danced in the street for no reason without accompaniment). Within a week, 34 more people joined her, and by August of that year, the number had increased to 400. At first, some people brought musicians to entertain their dances, but when people's feet began to turn bloody and people died because their hearts couldn't bear it, people moved to the top of the mountain to pray for the help of the gods. In the end, most people recovered. At that time, St. Vitus's Cathedral Dr. Vitus regards this chorea as a curse, but contemporary historians classify it as collective madness/stress-induced mental disorder.
June beetle disease (1962) In 1962, a woman working in a textile mill in the southern United States suddenly developed a rash and had a fever. She claimed that she had been bitten by a June beetle. Within a few days, dozens of other people she worked with had the same symptoms. Many people are sent to hospitals even if they have not been bitten by insects. The factory was forced to evacuate, but only two insects were found inside, and no dangerous chemicals that could cause the symptoms were found anywhere in the house. It was later identified as a mass disease caused by stress.
站图片位置Tanganyika Laughing Disease 1962) On January 30, 1962, the then-emerging country of Tanganyika is now the mainland part of Tanzania) Three girls laughed out loud because of a joke. But instead of stopping after a few minutes like normal laughter, it infected the entire school, affecting 60 percent of the students. It even spread throughout the region.
Although there are reports that these people laughed for a whole year, this is false news. They suddenly burst into laughter, and tears would burst into tears while laughing and then faint and develop rashes. Several schools were forcibly closed at the time, reportedly infecting 1000 people. Although it is believed to be one of the cases of collective psychogenic disease (MPI), the disease affects only children and this is the only instance.
LeRoy Ttics Disease (2013) In 2013, unconscious seizures suddenly occurred at a high school in Leroy, a suburb 50 miles east of Buffalo, New York. The first person to show abnormalities was cheerleader Katie Krautwurst. After waking up from a nap, she began to twitch uncontrollably and was grazed on her face with her mobile phone in the process. This phenomenon then spread to her good friends and other classmates who were outstanding in learning, most of whom were girls.
This school is very small, with only 600 students. When the phenomenon spread, some students went on national television to describe their symptoms. At first, people thought it was chemical poisoning, but it was later confirmed to be a conversion disorder. A small number of people unconsciously imitate the behavior of their peers. And oddly enough, the condition can be exacerbated by the use of social media, and people who don't upload their symptoms to YouTube or appear on TV recover faster than others.
Kazakhstan sleeping sickness 2013-present) In a small town in Kalachi, Kazakhstan, about a quarter of the residents suffer from narcolepsy unrelated to encephalitis. The disease first appeared in 2013, and patients would fall asleep for several days at a time and wake up feeling nausea, headache or amnesia. Experts have conducted more than 20000 tests on the air, water, food and residents of the area, but still have not been able to determine the cause. Since the beginning of 2015, 152 cases have been detected.
nodding disease This is an epidemic that affects African children in modern times and first appeared in Tanzania. Nodding disease is when children aged 5-15 suddenly nod or have a seizure, often when they want to eat. Effects include falls and mental impairment. But studies have shown that children with the disease do not develop the condition when eating unfamiliar foods such as chocolate. Currently, nodding disease has affected 3000 children in the area, and the cause and treatment drugs have not been determined.
Mogelons 'disease is not a hysteria, but the cause is unknown, and some people are even debating whether it can be considered a disease. Mary Leito, a biologist at the University of Massachusetts Boston, named it Morguillons disease. Although the disease is more common in middle-aged white women, Leito started studying it and naming it because her son said he felt a bug under his skin biting him. Since then, tens of thousands of people around the world have reported having Morgellons 'disease, including singer Joni Mitchell. Symptoms include itching, burning sensation, memory loss and the appearance of small fibers on the skin. However, a survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and CDC found that most of the fibers were stuck to the cotton material of the bandage. No viruses or environmental factors were found and it was assumed to be a mental illness. However, many people still believe that Morgillons 'disease is a physical problem, and doctors are still trying to fully understand it.