Still Waters Posted February 15, 2016 #1 Share Posted February 15, 2016 Late last month dozens of schools in Bangladesh were closed after hundreds of students began succumbing to a mystery illness. The students were taken to a local college hospital and examined, but doctors there could find no common cause or reason for the symptoms. In all the cases the mystery illness was minor and soon faded away. In all, 57 schools in the region were closed for two days while investigators searched for a cause but none was found. The Faridpur school mystery has all the textbook signs of a mass hysteria outbreak. http://news.discover...desh-160215.htm 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
141 Posted February 15, 2016 #2 Share Posted February 15, 2016 strange ........ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paranormalcy Posted February 15, 2016 #3 Share Posted February 15, 2016 I agree this is likely another variant of mass hysteria, as happens, usually in schools and other closed gathering places of direct social interaction with no central activity (like a ball game or opera), and it's usually involving children or other malleable or easily-influenced or stressed people. Always interesting. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Meadows Posted February 15, 2016 #4 Share Posted February 15, 2016 So a bunch of kids wanted some time off.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paperdyer Posted February 15, 2016 #5 Share Posted February 15, 2016 Maybe a really hot guy came to school and it triggered a hormone attack? A mass panic attack is more like it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
141 Posted February 15, 2016 #6 Share Posted February 15, 2016 Maybe a really hot guy came to school and it triggered a hormone attack? A mass panic attack is more like it. if the hot guy was Shah Rukh khan i can understand ....talking about hormone trigger ...yes but this has happened in a few schools ... still strange 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XenoFish Posted February 15, 2016 #7 Share Posted February 15, 2016 Must be a very contagious strain of hypochondria. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pallidin Posted February 15, 2016 #8 Share Posted February 15, 2016 I read the original article and I would tend to agree that this appears to be a case of mass hysteria. The type of symptoms and a lack of repeat events after the students were returned to the classrooms (which were not cleaned) leads me to believe this. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wes4747 Posted February 15, 2016 #9 Share Posted February 15, 2016 57 schools? Hysteria has what boundaries?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nzo Posted February 16, 2016 #10 Share Posted February 16, 2016 Or maybe there was an environmental problem that negatively affected the young people. So easy to diagnose just send out a few teams looking at what industries are around the schools and see what they are burning, mixing and or dumping. I have found that Doctors are REALLY REALLY bad investigators. Good at prescribing drugs but really bad at diagnosing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quiXilver Posted February 16, 2016 #11 Share Posted February 16, 2016 Well that is de ja vu for me, I had to check the date as I vividly recall this exact same thing happening a couple years ago... anyone else recall this? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troublehalf Posted February 16, 2016 #12 Share Posted February 16, 2016 At last! Proof that humans are psychically receptive creatures! If one does it, they simply pass it on through psychic powers they don't know they have and others repeat it, like domino. But to be realistic, humans, especially young, are impressionable. I would have done it just to get a day off school! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goodnite Posted February 16, 2016 #13 Share Posted February 16, 2016 There are recorded cases of this through centuries, and it not always children. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chibadiba Posted February 16, 2016 #14 Share Posted February 16, 2016 Well that is de ja vu for me, I had to check the date as I vividly recall this exact same thing happening a couple years ago... anyone else recall this? Same here. However I think it was early last year but I could be wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nothinglizx2 Posted February 16, 2016 #15 Share Posted February 16, 2016 Maybe it should be called the Halifax Virus. http://www.therichest.com/rich-list/most-shocking/10-of-the-craziest-cases-of-mass-hysteria/?view=all http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/saving/article-2047543/Warning-dangerous-new-viruses-look-identical-online-banking-pages.html If you watch this video, the guy on there who sent the blood to be tested got the vitals back, said they came back: NAD (Nothing Abnormal Detected) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeastieRunner Posted February 16, 2016 #16 Share Posted February 16, 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freetoroam Posted February 17, 2016 #17 Share Posted February 17, 2016 (edited) Or maybe there was an environmental problem that negatively affected the young people. So easy to diagnose just send out a few teams looking at what industries are around the schools and see what they are burning, mixing and or dumping. I have found that Doctors are REALLY REALLY bad investigators. Good at prescribing drugs but really bad at diagnosing. From article: In all, 57 schools in the region were closed for two days while investigators searched for a cause but none was found. The Faridpur school mystery has all the textbook signs of a mass hysteria outbreak. http://news.discover...desh-160215.htm If it were anything to do with pollution from industries, it would not be a one off and would be on a much more regular basis and it would not just affect young people. Pollution affects all age. Edited February 17, 2016 by freetoroam 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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