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The citizen in A village in Kazakhstan's Got Mysterious 'Sleeping Syndrome'




 Kalachi, Kazakhstan, Most residents of this remote village in Kazakhstan spend time by sleep. Instead of lazy, they are exposed to some kind of sleeping syndrome of unknown source.

Lyubov Belkova claimed as the first citizen of Kalachi often asleep for days because of this mysterious syndrome. This incident took
place in 2010, and since then, he reported experiencing the same episode as much as seven times.

Then this girl was diagnosed with ischemic stroke. But the strangeness began when a neighbor began experiencing similar symptoms. They felt dizzy and fell asleep for a few days.

the other symptoms found is unable to stand up well, fatigue, and impaired memory. Some of them also experienced severe hallucinations.

Not limited to adult citizens, the children were also experience it. Even last September 8 children reported collapsed suddenly and fell asleep while in school.

People worried because it is increasingly day after day, the number of 'sleeping syndrome' patients increasingly mysteriously. Allegedly 14 percent of the population Kalachi which amounted to only 600 people had been stricken with the same disease.

For four years, the doctors were trying to figure out what really happened to the locals. At first they thought the population was attacked encephalopathy or disorders of the brain, moreover the brain scans of most of the population showed the presence of excess fluid in the brain, which is commonly referred to as edema.
  "Although there is edema, strangely no decrease in nerve function and no symptoms of meningitis," complained kair Abdurakhmanov, senior physician of the Regional Children's Hospital as quoted by Russia Today, Thursday (12/18/2014).

Prof Jim Horne, sleep expert from the Sleep Research Centre, Loughborough University in the UK says it is not narcolepsy and chronic fatigue syndrome. Therefore, the symptoms of narcolepsy is only visible in a short time, not days like that happen in this Kalachi citizens.

Meanwhile, local residents believe the cause of this syndrome is derived from the former uranium mine of Soviet Union remains near their village. But when investigated, people who used to work as a miner there just not exposed to the syndrome. Radiation levels in the local village, including in the town next door, also not seen to increase.

The researchers who took part in the mystery is also not found no harmful chemicals contained in the soil or water sources in the area.

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