![\"ADNFCR-2867-ID-801780616-ADNFCR\"](\"http:\/\/feeds.directnews.co.uk\/feedtrack\/justcopyright.gif?feedid=2867&itemid=801780616\"\/)
<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The people of Kalachi in Kazakhstan are getting have been getting more than 40 winks over the past two years – and the reason is a bit of a mystery.<\/p>\n
People experiencing the condition reported identical complaints including dizziness, weakness, loss of coordination and an unconscious or semi-conscious state for up to three days. Furthermore, some victims were also suffering from hallucinations. <\/p>\n
Victims typically fall asleep very suddenly at any time of day and night, and often cannot be woken for a few days. Some people remember nothing when they wake up and complain of drowsiness, while others say they’ve seen terrible things. <\/p>\n
Residents are understandably worried given that a ninth wave of the unidentified sickness has just hit the area. Over 150 cases of the disease have been reported since March 2013, when it first struck the area. <\/p>\n
Experts are concerned that the mystery illness could spread to outside the confines of the village – however, there is another theory.<\/p>\n
Professor Leonid Rikhvanov, who works at Russia’s Tomsk Polytechnic University, thinks that the sickness could be caused by a disused uranium mine located nearby. <\/p>\n
He believes radon gas could be leaking from the installation, which was built by the Soviet Union, and into the population. <\/p>\n
He told newsweek: “In my opinion, a gas factor is at work here. Radon could be operating as a narcotic substance or an anesthetic. Currently, the underground space of the mine is flooded and gases are being squeezed to the surface.” <\/p>\n
If professor Rikhvanov is correct, the illness could spread as the gas does.<\/p>\n
However, others are favouring a psychological explanation – that it is all down to a mass hysteria. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
People living in a Kazakhstan village are falling asleep suddenly for days at a time, and no-one knows why!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n