'Sleepy Hollow' Disease tracked to uranium mine
Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2015 8:33 pmMystery of Kazakhstan's 'Sleepy Hollow' disease tracked to uranium mine
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Published time: July 11, 2015 11:22
A closed uranium mine was pinpointed as the culprit behind the outbreaks of a mysterious sleep-inducing disease that has plagued the residents of two villages in Kazakhstan since 2013.
“The cause of the disease... has been established. It's carbon monoxide,” said Deputy Prime Minister Berdybek Saparbayev. “There used to be a uranium mine in the area, which is now closed. Occasionally it released carbon monoxide and hydrocarbon [sic, presumably methane] in high concentrations... That is when these 'sleepy disease' outbreaks happened.”
Villagers at Kalachi and Krasnogorsky, which stand roughly 600 meters apart, started complaining about strange onsets of sleepiness, nausea and hallucinations in March 2013. Doctors had trouble diagnosing the disease that affected about one in 10 people.
The abandoned uranium mine was on the locals' radar ever since the disease came, although they thought radiation rather than toxic gas was the cause. RT's crew, when it was shooting a documentary about the mystery of the Kazakh 'Sleepy Hollow', did indeed find high levels of radiation near the mine, but not in Kalachi itself.
The conclusion of the Kazakh researchers was independently confirmed in Moscow and Prague, Saparbayev said. The local authorities decided to move both villages to a safer location.
Krasnogorsky used to be a mining town with a population of 6,500, and had provided uranium ore for the Soviet nuclear industry since the 1960s. The town’s population dwindled to 130 after the mine was closed in early 1990s. Kalachi has some 600 residents.
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Sleepy Hollow in Kazakhstan: Villagers suffer from unknown brain-affecting disease
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Published time: December 14, 2014 22:42 Edited time: December 15, 2014 05:03
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Published time: July 11, 2015 11:22
A closed uranium mine was pinpointed as the culprit behind the outbreaks of a mysterious sleep-inducing disease that has plagued the residents of two villages in Kazakhstan since 2013.
“The cause of the disease... has been established. It's carbon monoxide,” said Deputy Prime Minister Berdybek Saparbayev. “There used to be a uranium mine in the area, which is now closed. Occasionally it released carbon monoxide and hydrocarbon [sic, presumably methane] in high concentrations... That is when these 'sleepy disease' outbreaks happened.”
Villagers at Kalachi and Krasnogorsky, which stand roughly 600 meters apart, started complaining about strange onsets of sleepiness, nausea and hallucinations in March 2013. Doctors had trouble diagnosing the disease that affected about one in 10 people.
The abandoned uranium mine was on the locals' radar ever since the disease came, although they thought radiation rather than toxic gas was the cause. RT's crew, when it was shooting a documentary about the mystery of the Kazakh 'Sleepy Hollow', did indeed find high levels of radiation near the mine, but not in Kalachi itself.
The conclusion of the Kazakh researchers was independently confirmed in Moscow and Prague, Saparbayev said. The local authorities decided to move both villages to a safer location.
Krasnogorsky used to be a mining town with a population of 6,500, and had provided uranium ore for the Soviet nuclear industry since the 1960s. The town’s population dwindled to 130 after the mine was closed in early 1990s. Kalachi has some 600 residents.
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Read more
Back to Sleepy Hollow: RT returns to Kazakhstan for new theories on mysterious disease
[ http://rt.com/news/270394-sleepy-hollow-new-theories/ ]
Published time: June 29, 2015 14:25
Sleepy Hollow reborn: Kazakhstan villagers report new cases of mysterious disorder
[ http://rt.com/news/236745-sleepy-hollow ... -disorder/ ]
Published time: March 02, 2015 12:09 Edited time: March 02, 2015 13:15
Sleepy Hollow in Kazakhstan: Villagers suffer from unknown brain-affecting disease
[ http://rt.com/news/214379-sleepy-hollow ... n-disease/ ]
Published time: December 14, 2014 22:42 Edited time: December 15, 2014 05:03