7 children of Kalachi hospitalized with ‘sleeping sickness'

Seven children were admitted to a hospital after falling into deep sleep, according to "Vremya" newspaper. Chief physician of Yesil district hospital Kabdrashit Almamgambetov noted that all the patients were playing outside, then felt weakness, lethargy and eventually fell asleep. Among the ill is a 2-year-old Stanislav Samusenko and his 10-year-old sister Marina. By the way, their father also suffered from "sleeping sickness". The list of sick children includes four 11-year-olds and one 14-year-old boy. The first case of the manifestation of the sleeping epidemic in Kalachi occurred between March and April 2013. Since that time, the number of patients with sleeping sickness has already reached 60. All the people had the same symptoms such as as weakness, malaise, fainting, partial memory loss, and in the worst cases, even hallucinations. Doctors put the same diagnosis: encephalopathy of unknown etiology, or rather - brain damage. All the victims, simply, begin to feel an irresistible desire to sleep. Doctors and scientists have not yet figured out the cause of the mysterious illness. Kalachi was visited by toxicologists, radiologists, neurologists and environmentalists, but no anomalies were found by the experts.