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Nov 22, 2024 7 tweets 3 min read
Ten years ago, more than a dozen schoolchildren in a small Kazakh village collapsed and had seizures. When panicked parents tried to get answers for the mysterious, synchronous illness, local officials offered dubious explanations: The parents were feeding their kids too much junk food. The girls’ periods were causing them to collapse. The kids were faking being sick. Image