Attacks mysterious plague called "sleeping sickness" attack hundreds of people in remote areas Kalachi in Northern Kazakhstan. The disease causes the pain-stricken patients dizziness, hallucinations and even partly to memory loss. Although scientists have launched various efforts to reveal the nature of the disease, so far none of which show the results.
"Sleeping sickness" first broke out in early 2013. Since then, more than 150 cases have been reported in a small remote village, which has about 680 residents.
According to a report from Interfax and Kazakh Telegraph Agency, as reported by Antara, medical experts who studied patients say the disease was caused by a "brain disease that are unknown", but they ruled out the possibility of infection biology.
Nuclear scientists and environmentalists are investigating the area reported no abnormal radiation levels or concentrations of toxic elements weird, Xinhua reported.
A leading expert in Russia who has been treating patients from Kalachi said "sleeping sickness" that may be caused by a little sleep radon gas from the uranium mines that have been abandoned and are only a few hundred meters from the village.
Geo-ecology professor Leonid Rikhvanov told the media that the mine near Kalachi was flooded and the gas, which usually fills the mine, may have spread to the surface. But he also stressed that it was only a theory and not proven.
Meanwhile, Local Government Kalachi in January announced plans to move all the residents of the village and the nearby small town from 2015.
Kalachi village situated only 600 meters from City Mine-Soviet era, Krasnogorsk, which has menghasilan uranium ore from 1960 to 1990. The mine was closed after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
On May 16, 2014, The Siberian Times reported that scientists were puzzled by a mysterious condition that makes people suddenly fall asleep for two to six days in the area around the village of Kalachi and Krasnogorsk, which is now empty.
Conditions were specifically accompanied by memory loss is staggering.
Marina Felk (50), according to The Siberian Times, said, "I was milking cows, as usual in the morning, and started to fall asleep. I do not remember anything at all. While awake, I was in a hospital bed, and some nurse smiled at me and said, Welcome back sleeping princess. You finally got up, too. "
"What else do I remember? No! I slept for two days and two nights, "said the middle-aged women are.
According to a report from Interfax and Kazakh Telegraph Agency, as reported by Antara, medical experts who studied patients say the disease was caused by a "brain disease that are unknown", but they ruled out the possibility of infection biology.
Nuclear scientists and environmentalists are investigating the area reported no abnormal radiation levels or concentrations of toxic elements weird, Xinhua reported.
A leading expert in Russia who has been treating patients from Kalachi said "sleeping sickness" that may be caused by a little sleep radon gas from the uranium mines that have been abandoned and are only a few hundred meters from the village.
Geo-ecology professor Leonid Rikhvanov told the media that the mine near Kalachi was flooded and the gas, which usually fills the mine, may have spread to the surface. But he also stressed that it was only a theory and not proven.
Meanwhile, Local Government Kalachi in January announced plans to move all the residents of the village and the nearby small town from 2015.
Kalachi village situated only 600 meters from City Mine-Soviet era, Krasnogorsk, which has menghasilan uranium ore from 1960 to 1990. The mine was closed after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
On May 16, 2014, The Siberian Times reported that scientists were puzzled by a mysterious condition that makes people suddenly fall asleep for two to six days in the area around the village of Kalachi and Krasnogorsk, which is now empty.
Conditions were specifically accompanied by memory loss is staggering.
Marina Felk (50), according to The Siberian Times, said, "I was milking cows, as usual in the morning, and started to fall asleep. I do not remember anything at all. While awake, I was in a hospital bed, and some nurse smiled at me and said, Welcome back sleeping princess. You finally got up, too. "
"What else do I remember? No! I slept for two days and two nights, "said the middle-aged women are.
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