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A girl fainting and collapsing into the arms of a woman, in the background is a similar scene of a fainting man. Engraving by W. Sedgwick after E. Penny. Wellcome Images
On the 42nd anniversary of the incident at "the Fainting Field", a BBC local radio reporter created a podcast recounting the events, and investigating what could have happened by consulting a forensic science lecturer from Nottingham Trent University, who hypothesised that different cleaning products could have been used in a temporary toilet ...
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 ...
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 ...
Acclaimed Japanese horror film Audition is set to get an English-language remake.. Directed by Takashi Miike, the original 1999 film has been embraced as a classic of the genre, and is notorious ...
The International Affective Picture System (IAPS) is a database of pictures designed to provide a standardized set of pictures for studying emotion and attention [1] that has been widely used in psychological research. [2] The IAPS was developed by the National Institute of Mental Health Center for Emotion and Attention at the University of ...
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.
Mary Ann Vecchio (born December 4, 1955) is an Italian American respiratory therapist and one of two subjects in the Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph by photojournalism student John Filo during the immediate aftermath of the Kent State shootings on May 4, 1970.