Well, there you are. I was beginning to wonder. Good to see you. Fill your mug with coffee and then fill your other mug with a virtual muffin. You didn't sleep in today, did you? Some folks in Kazakhstan have been sleeping in...for up to six days!
Residents of the almost abandoned Soviet town of
Krasnogorsk and the areas around Kalachi village, in Kazakhstan, are
prone to a mysterious ‘sleeping beauty’ syndrome. The bizarre condition
has people suddenly dozing off for as long as six days at a time. It’s
like a bad horror film – the illness has gripped these regions and no
one knows the reason behind it. Scientists and experts are truly
perplexed by the phenomenon.
The weird sleeping illness isn’t prevalent all the time.
Instead, it comes in waves – the first one occurred in March 2013 and
the second in May 2013.
There have been three more since then – around
New Year 2014, just after the winter holidays this year, and now again
in May. A total of 40 to 60 people have suffered in the scarcely
populated region.
In most of the cases, the sleep is accompanied by
temporary memory loss.
See ya, eh! Gotta go have a (short) nap!
Bob on the mend
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