Biological Hazard – Unidentified Illness: Kazakhstan (Sleeping Village)
Biological Hazard – Unidentified Illness (human)
Asia – Kazakhstan | State of Aqmola, Kalachi
Location: 52°14’19.0″N 66°34’27.0″E
Bio-hazard Level: 3/4 High
Deaths: unknown
Humans Affected: ~ 100
Biological Hazard in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, 17 December, 2014 at 04:37 (04:37 AM) UTC.
A mysterious sleeping illness has fallen on the residents of a remote Kazakhstan village which caused suffers to sleep for days at a time. For the past four years, residents in the village of Kalachi have been afflicted by the disorder, which also causes dizziness, nausea, hallucinations and memory loss. So far more than 100 of the town’s 600 residents have experienced the illness, the Russian Times reports. “I’m weak, my legs feel heavy, as if I’m wearing a hundred pairs of boots, and my head is spinning,” one sufferer said. Other patients claim they behave “like they’re drunk” and that it’s difficult to call for help as “your tongue gets twisted”. In a recent case, an ambulance worker told the news agency that 20 people fainted and slept for several days: “At least 60 at once in the winter … we laid them in rows”. Doctors claim the illness is caused by excessive fluid on the brain, but many locals believe toxic wind emanating from a nearby uranium mine – which has since been shut down – may be behind the mystery. However, former mine workers have not experienced the disorder. A test of the village’s water, soil and vegetation supply has not identified anything unusual or abnormal.
Source: RSOE EDIS
Sleeping Village – Black Sabbath
Media Reports:
Villagers have been battling a mysterious sleeping sickness for four years
People fall into deep sleep for up to six days after striking without warning
Now residents reveal the horrifying side effects – which include increased sex drive, inability to control the bladder and ghastly visions
Worse, while no one knows what causes it, some fear they may be being deliberately poisoned to force them to make way for a gold mine
Residents of Kalachi keep falling asleep and no one knows why
(news.com AU) There’s something really strange happening in a Kazakhstan town, residents keep falling asleep, sometimes for up to six days at a time.
Since Spring of 2013, one in 10 of the 600 villagers of Kalachi are falling asleep in broad daylight and no one seems to know why. They’ve called it a sleep epidemic with symptoms including hallucinations, dizziness, weakness and memory loss.
Lying 445km from Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, Kalachi was once a top secret town due to its proximity to a uranium mine. A documentary recently released by RT says many reports now blame this disused mine, that closed in the 1980s, for the epidemic with reports suggesting water from the mine may be seeping into local rivers.
Locals have also developed their own conspiracy theories including alien viruses and government experimentation. But the case has puzzled authorities as residents of Krasnogorsk, a town lying closer to the mine, have reported no cases of sleeping sickness.
A report in the Siberian Times says scientists have conducted more than 7000 experiments on soil, water, air, patients’ blood, hair, nails have been unable to determine the cause of the affliction.
Labelled Sleepy Valley and Sleepy Hollow, people are falling asleep in the most unexpected of places — at work, at school and in the street. Nothing can be done to wake them up with many having no recollection of the instance.
One resident told the Siberian Times of her experience.
“I was milking cows, as usual, early in the morning, and fell asleep. I remember nothing at all, only that when I came round I was in a hospital ward, and the nurses smiled and me, and said: ‘Welcome back sleeping princess, you’ve finally woken up’.”
“What else do I remember? Nothing. I slept for two days and two nights.
“The women in my ward said that I tried to wake up several times, saying urgently needed to milk my cows.”
The epidemic seems to happen in waves with unexplained sleep reported around New Year 2014, May 2014 and most recently in October 2014.
A special commission was created from specialists from several Kazakh ministries to investigate the situation in Kalachi however the cause continues to remain a mystery.
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