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The “sleep epidemic”, which baffled doctors, has hit residents Kalachi village in the Akmola region of Kazakhstan. Local channel KTK reports that an unknown disease has already knocked down several people, who had no contact with each other. Their complaints are the same: weakness, malaise, constant desire to sleep, fainting, partial memory loss and even hallucinations. The villagers urgently need to send all the victims for examination to the regional center – Kokshetau, and send to them as soon as possible time of qualified virologists. Nadezhda Yakimova, resident sat down, says: “Residents fall asleep, it happens right on the spot, it happens less often. At school, a 9th grade student fell first, you know, hallucinations in he began, he was insane. There were signs as if a stroke, but it’s far from a stroke. Few adults and two the child lay in intensive care in a delusional state, constantly they had hallucinations. “The first case of manifestation of sleeping sickness in Kalachy occurred in March and April 2013, the portal said Tengrinews. Then about ten people in age from 14 to 70 years. According to the CTC, outbreaks of the disease occur regularly. The last case was in December: then in 12 people came to the hospital. Today, only 7 people are affected. They say that the disease comes with warming. Workers health service and doctors cause encephalopathy – lesions the brain was never found. Residents themselves bind their disease with abandoned uranium mines that have ceased their work here over 30 years ago. “Head of Department Health sent several teams who measured radiation background in each house, examined the village, everything examined – the radiation background is everywhere below the maximum permissible “, – says Kabdrashit Almagambetov, head physician of the Yesil district hospitals. He also said that experts examined water samples (from a well and from a natural source), soil and air, and took blood tests from victims for the content of surrogate alcohol, salts of heavy metals and other toxic substances – all indicators were within normal limits. On the website of the Somnology Center The Ministry of Health and Social Development of the Russian Federation says that a classic manifestation narcolepsy are attacks of falling asleep in the daytime, which hard to resist. Patients may fall asleep while sitting in a theater in transport and even during a conversation. Another important symptom are episodes of sudden loss of muscle tone, especially in emotional situations, which can lead to falls. At falling asleep or during awakening, patients with narcolepsy may to see strange images, often threatening, the so-called hypnagogic and hypnapompic hallucinations. These feelings may be accompanied by an equally unpleasant phenomenon – a decrease in muscle tone body (the patient at this time can not move his arm or leg). 40% of people with narcolepsy have night sleep disturbances in the form of frequent awakenings. But there are no known cases when narcolepsy would become an epidemic.
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