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Vinton, Virginia (2007) – An outbreak of twitching, headaches and dizziness affected at least nine girls and one teacher at William Byrd High School. The episode lasted for months amid other local public health scares. [51] Tanzania (2008) – In September 2008, 20 girls at a school in Tabora started fainting while taking their final year ...
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On the morning of Thursday 7 October 1965, at a girls' school in Blackburn in England, several girls complained of dizziness. [21] [22] Some fainted. Within a couple of hours, 85 girls from the school were rushed by ambulance to a nearby hospital after fainting. Symptoms included swooning, moaning, chattering of teeth, hyperpnea, and tetany ...
MSA is distinct from multisystem proteinopathy, a more common muscle-wasting syndrome. MSA is also different from multiple organ dysfunction syndrome, sometimes referred to as multiple organ failure, and from multiple organ system failures, an often-fatal complication of septic shock and other severe illnesses or injuries.
[2] [1] The Arraba school in Arrabah saw 32 girls affected. Over the next two weeks, 57 Palestinian girls complained of similar symptoms at Zahra Middle School in Jenin (March 26), 37 at Tulkarem (March 29), 310 in Hebron (early April) and other towns, [7] with 943 people eventually hospitalized in the West Bank, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Israeli ...
La petite mort (French pronunciation: [la pətit mɔʁ]; lit. ' the little death ') is an expression that refers to a brief loss or weakening of consciousness, and in modern usage refers specifically to a post-orgasm sensation as likened to death.
The laughter epidemic began on January 30, 1962, at a mission-run boarding school for girls in Kashasha. It started with three girls and spread throughout the school, affecting 95 of the 159 pupils, aged 12–18. [2] [3] Symptoms lasted from a few hours to 16 days, averaging around 7 days. [4]
In human sexuality, paralysis, also known as rape paralysis, [1] involuntary paralysis, [2] fright (or faint), [3] [4] or tonic immobility, [1] [3] [5] is a natural bodily survival reaction which can be automatically activated by the brain of a person who feels threatened by sexual violence.