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  2. List of mass panic cases - Wikipedia

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    Recurrent epidemic of mass hysteria in Nepal (2016–2018) – A unique phenomenon of “recurrent epidemic of mass hysteria” was reported from a school of Pyuthan district of western Nepal in 2018. After a 9-year-old school girl developed crying and shouting episodes, quickly other children of the same school were also affected resulting in ...

  3. Mass psychogenic illness - Wikipedia

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    Mass psychogenic illness; Other names: Mass hysteria, epidemic hysteria, mass sociogenic illness, mass psychogenic disorder: Painting of Dancing plagues of the Middle Ages are thought to have been caused by mass hysteria. Specialty: Psychiatry, clinical psychology: Symptoms: Headache, dizziness, nausea, abdominal pain, cough, fatigue, sore ...

  4. Tanganyika laughter epidemic - Wikipedia

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    The Tanganyika laughter epidemic of 1962 was an outbreak of mass hysteria—or mass psychogenic illness (MPI)—rumored to have occurred in or near the village of Kashasha on the western coast of Lake Victoria in Tanganyika (which, once united with Zanzibar, became the modern nation of Tanzania) near the border with Uganda.

  5. Dancing plague of 1518 - Wikipedia

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    Engraving by Hendrik Hondius portraying three people affected by the plague. Work based on original drawing by Pieter Brueghel.. The dancing plague of 1518, or dance epidemic of 1518 (French: Épidémie dansante de 1518), was a case of dancing mania that occurred in Strasbourg, Alsace (modern-day France), in the Holy Roman Empire from July 1518 to September 1518.

  6. 1983 West Bank fainting epidemic - Wikipedia

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    While Baruch Modan, the director general of Israel's health ministry believed they were "dealing with a case of mass hysteria rooted in the tense anti-Israeli climate in the occupied West Bank," Brig. Iliya said "we tend to think it was all provocation designed to stir up the normally quiet Jenin streets."

  7. 'War of the Worlds' caused mass hysteria in 1938. NJ farm ...

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    “The War of the Worlds” aired on Oct. 30, 1938. Narrated by Orson Welles, the broadcast caused mass hysteria across the U.S.

  8. History of mental disorders - Wikipedia

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    Episodes of mass dancing mania are reported from the Middle Ages, "which gave to the individuals affected all the appearance of insanity". [52] This was one kind of mass delusion or mass hysteria/panic that has occurred around the world through the millennia. [53] The care of lunatics was primarily the responsibility of the family.

  9. Wild claims of mass child molestation rocked an L.A. beach ...

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    "McMartin" became a byword for social contagion, hysteria and the epic failure of trusted institutions: law enforcement, courts, the child-therapy establishment and the media. Wild claims of mass ...