300 hospitalised in Indian district, health minister says ‘mystery illness’
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LDC
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While we're (or just me!) musing on the mystery illness stuff, anyone come across Morgellons disease before? Fascinating stuff!
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Morgellons - Wikipedia
Morgellons: A hidden epidemic or mass hysteria?
It's a mysterious condition that affects tens of thousands worldwide. But what is it? Will Storr investigates
History of Morgellons disease: from delusion to definition - PMC
Morgellons disease (MD) is a skin condition characterized by the presence of multicolored filaments that lie under, are embedded in, or project from skin. Although the condition may have a longer history, disease matching the above description was ...
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Mation
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I get where you're coming from, and that you're considering all sorts of plausible possibilities, but maybe this would be better for a thread on psychosomatic illness?While we're (or just me!) musing on the mystery illness stuff, anyone come across Morgellons disease before? Fascinating stuff!
Morgellons - Wikipedia
Morgellons: A hidden epidemic or mass hysteria?
It's a mysterious condition that affects tens of thousands worldwide. But what is it? Will Storr investigates
History of Morgellons disease: from delusion to definition - PMC
Morgellons disease (MD) is a skin condition characterized by the presence of multicolored filaments that lie under, are embedded in, or project from skin. Although the condition may have a longer history, disease matching the above description was ...
Morgellons is fascinating (not being sarcastic - I do think so), but there's a danger of this thread veering down that route when, at this stage, none of us really knows a thing.
(I say this knowing I'm also guilty of potential over-speculation.)
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
Fair enough, totally don't want to de-rail. Happy to halt my wild speculations pending more info.
frogwoman
No amount of cajolery...
This?
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Yep
SheilaNaGig
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I've been thinking about the Flint Mi water crisis a lot recently alongside the recent weird grim Michigan election bullshit.
SheilaNaGig
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That looks like such a weird fuckig sentence.
What does it say, what does it mean? Or is it just crap syntax, not actual weirdness...
SheilaNaGig
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Unrelated
But I had no idea. So mentioning it.
Also this
Every day is a school day, and it's sometimes shocking
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A friend of mine did the antifreeze suicide in Alaska. She was Inuit, she was a musician poet storyteller, she was a lesbian with three extraordinary children, she was a powerful strong beautiful sad woman.
But I had no idea. So mentioning it.
India toxic alcohol: Dozens die in Punjab poisoning
Police make arrests and confiscate supplies of bootleg alcohol which killed at least 86 people.
www.bbc.co.uk
Also this
Every day is a school day, and it's sometimes shocking
Suicide by pesticide poisoning in India: a review of pesticide regulations and their impact on suicide trends - BMC Public Health
Background Pesticide self-poisoning is a common means of suicide in India. Banning highly hazardous pesticides from agricultural use has been successful in reducing total suicide numbers in several South Asian countries without affecting agricultural output. Here, we describe national and...
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A friend of mine did the antifreeze suicide in Alaska. She was Inuit, she was a musician poet storyteller, she was a lesbian with three extraordinary children, she was a powerful strong beautiful sad woman.
Mation
real life adventure worth more than pieces of gold
Sorry for the loss of your friend x
SheilaNaGig
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Silly Rabbit
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But I had no idea. So mentioning it.
India toxic alcohol: Dozens die in Punjab poisoning
Police make arrests and confiscate supplies of bootleg alcohol which killed at least 86 people.www.bbc.co.uk
Also this
Every day is a school day, and it's sometimes shocking
Suicide by pesticide poisoning in India: a review of pesticide regulations and their impact on suicide trends - BMC Public Health
Background Pesticide self-poisoning is a common means of suicide in India. Banning highly hazardous pesticides from agricultural use has been successful in reducing total suicide numbers in several South Asian countries without affecting agricultural output. Here, we describe national and...
A friend of mine did the antifreeze suicide in Alaska. She was Inuit, she was a musician poet storyteller, she was a lesbian with three extraordinary children, she was a powerful strong beautiful sad woman.
don't misjudge it this has happened in india more than once
and it is quite recent to religious holidays
frogwoman
No amount of cajolery...
Really sorry to hear this SheilaNaGig
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Silly Rabbit
Well I've heard that regardless of religious predilection , if you drink
and have to put up with religious holidays you tend to drink more
be happy the calendar is telling you to be
more Booze please
frogwoman
No amount of cajolery...
I don't know about religious festivals but in Russia it's often from dodgy alcohol being sold as drinkable on the street or in markets and shops, often to homeless and other vulnerable people. I don't know much about Iran but iirc the ban on alcohol has led to a situation where it gets sold on black market with no quality / safety controls
frogwoman
No amount of cajolery...
I don't think it has a great deal to do with religion tbh. A lot of the time this dodgy alcohol is on sale in small towns with very high unemployment and a low life expectancy, high poverty rates etc. I don't think this looks like alcohol poisoning though, probably some other sort of pollution?
SheilaNaGig
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Is there a comparable drinking culture in India? I know it’s bad in Russia but I’ve always assumed (perhaps incorrectyl) that India doesn’t have a booze issue
Raheem
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It's not so much having a booze issue as in lots of alcoholics, but issues with booze that contains things booze ought not to. India does have a history with that, although I would guess it wouldn't be such a mystery if that was the cause in this case.
bimble
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India has massive booze issues (obviously not all over) but yeah, lots of places the only way you are supposed to be able to get any alcohol - if you're not rich - is the goverment run liquor store, and so people do make their own. If it's anything to do with that though i'd be surprised its not almost entirely men who are sick.
eta 65 children under 12 are involved apparently, dont think its a homebrew issue. .
eta 65 children under 12 are involved apparently, dont think its a homebrew issue. .
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Ignoring the booze thing <just because of bimble's post above>, potentially bathing.
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Looks like it was heavy metals poisoning but they don't know the source.
www.the-scientist.com
Mystery Illness Cluster in India May Be Due to Neurotoxin
Health officials are searching for possible exposures to heavy metals, but no sources of contamination have been identified.
www.the-scientist.com
elbows
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Pesticides came up again recently:
www.ndtv.com
Pesticide Residue Blamed For Mystery Illness In Andhra Pradesh
Chemical residue from pesticides could be behind a mysterious illness that affected hundreds in Andhra Pradesh's Eluru, say tests by AIIMS in Delhi and other scientific facilities across the country
www.ndtv.com
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