{"id":844,"date":"2008-07-15T04:47:54","date_gmt":"2008-07-15T12:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bbrace.laughingsquid.net\/wordpress\/?p=844"},"modified":"2008-07-15T04:47:54","modified_gmt":"2008-07-15T12:47:54","slug":"mass-hysteria-affects-nearly-100-in-bangladesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/?p=844","title":{"rendered":"Mass hysteria affects nearly 100 in Bangladesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 100 people have fallen victim to mass hysteria, a temporary psychiatric illness, in Bangladesh, the Independent newspaper reported Tuesday. The endemic illness broke out in the southwestern district of Jessore, 164 km southwest of the capital, between July 2 and July 7.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 70 students were admitted to hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Mass hysteria became rampant in the country last year with several hundred people suffering from it. Most of them were students.<\/p>\n<p>Mass hysteria usually affects specific groups, mostly students aged between 13 and 25, and is usually accompanied by headache, convulsion and loss of consciousness.<\/p>\n<p>The disease spreads quickly from one person to another.<\/p>\n<p>Experts say anxiety and worry are the two main precipitating causes of the psychological problem, which is aggravated by malnutrition, tension and lack of tolerance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 100 people have fallen victim to mass hysteria, a temporary psychiatric illness, in Bangladesh, the Independent newspaper reported Tuesday. The endemic illness broke out in the southwestern district of Jessore, 164 km southwest of the capital, between July 2 and July 7. A total of 70 students were admitted to hospital. Mass hysteria became [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","spay_email":""},"categories":[50,8,10,11],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}