The sleeping sickness of Kalachi , Kazakhstan (with the place or the syndrome sometimes called sleepy hollow ) is a conjectured medical condition which causes a person to sleep for days or weeks at a time, together with other symptoms such as hallucinations , nausea , intoxicated behavior, disorientation and memory loss. The phenomenon was only reported in Kalachi and the nearby village of Krasnogorsk . It was first reported in March 2013 and by 2016 had affected about 150 people. The syndrome appeared to be non-communicable . The disease disappeared for some time but re-emerged in 2015, and affected all age groups.
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24-580: A "snail walking over their face". In a statement, a professor from Tomsk Polytechnic University , Leonid Rikhvanov, of the department of geo-ecology and geo-chemistry, said that radon gas from the mine could be the cause of the symptoms. The affected people would fall asleep during day-to-day activities and always feel sleepy. As a local nurse described the phenomenon to an RT news crew, "You wake them up, they can speak to you, reply to you, but as soon as you stop talking and ask what bothers them, they just want to sleep, sleep, sleep." Kazakh officials gave
36-408: A report about the disease, stating that heightened levels of carbon monoxide , along with other hydrocarbons due to flooding of an abandoned Soviet-era uranium mine nearby, was causing the syndrome, by spreading through the village's air. Concentration of carbon monoxide and reduced oxygen in the air were concluded to be the reason for the sleeping sickness in these villages. An alternate theory
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60-496: Is a 1980 American made-for-television film produced by Sunn Classic Pictures as a part of their Classics Illustrated series. It was filmed partly in Park City, Utah and shown on NBC . It starred Jeff Goldblum as Ichabod Crane , Meg Foster as Katrina von Tassel, and Dick Butkus as Brom Bones. It was directed by Henning Schellerup and produced by Charles Sellier , who was nominated for an Emmy Award for his work on
72-507: The Heywood-Wakefield Company Sleeping sickness of Kalachi, Kazakhstan , sometimes known as sleepy hollow See also [ edit ] Sleepy Hallow , an American rapper Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Sleepy Hollow . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to
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96-540: The Washington Irving story Places [ edit ] United States [ edit ] Sleepy Hollow, Marin County, California Sleepy Hollow, San Bernardino County, California Sleepy Hollow, Illinois Sleepy Hollow, Indiana Sleepy Hollow, New York , the setting of Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" Sleepy Hollow, Virginia Sleepy Hollow, Wyoming Sleepy Hollow,
108-433: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sleepy_Hollow&oldid=1251311057 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1980 film) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
120-446: The movie. The plot follows the general outline of the 1820 Washington Irving short story, " The Legend of Sleepy Hollow ", with the addition of a new character, widow Thelma Dumkey, who marries Brom Bones, leaving Ichabod free to marry Katrina. This article related to an American television horror film is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Sleeping sickness of Kalachi, Kazakhstan Potential causes of
132-457: The syndrome were suggested to be carbon monoxide poisoning or contamination of the ground water supply by chemicals used for military operations in the region. Other than excessive sleep, the disease causes hallucination, nausea and vomiting , and disorientation. Victims of the disease would sometimes act as if they were drunk, would experience memory loss about what they had done and experienced, and would often experience hallucinations like
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#1732765266201144-473: Was presented by an epidemiologist and experts from Nazarbayev University in Astana, Kazakhstan , after interviewing the local villagers, suggesting the ailment was caused by chemical contamination of the ground water supply. It was suggested that such chemicals had originated from use by the military and had leaked from barrels, but no particular chemicals were reported to have been identified – it
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