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Mosby's Medical Dictionary, 8th edition. © 2009, Elsevier.

McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.







Mass Hysteria among children in the world! "Mass Hysteria is defined as spontaneous, en masse development of identical physical or emotional symptoms among a group of individuals, as in a classroom of schoolchildren." This is just one of many ways that mass hysteria has been defined! According to http: //medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/mass+hysteria

Mass Hysteria Etymology: ME, maiour, great; Gk, hystera, womb "An episode of psychogenic illness affecting a large group of individuals at the same time is mass hysteria." Examples include the witchcraft trials of the 17th century and the irrational mass reaction to the 1938 radio show based on H.G. Wells' science-fiction novel, War of the Worlds. Also called collective hysteria, epidemic hysteria, major hysteria, mass panic, mass psychogenic illness. This was taken out of Mosby's Medical Dictionary, 8th edition. © 2009, Elsevier.

Mass Hysteria-"Psychiatry:The transmission of anxiety among a group of individuals." This is just a medical dictionary that I pulled the definition out of to get different versions of what mass hysteria is. This doesn't state that it is truely a mental disorder but yet it is anxiety which is a mental disorder. So it really depends on what source you are reading if mass hysteria is truely mental illness or just a group of people following one another. McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. As you can see depending on what site you are looking at you will get different information on the exact mental state of the people involved with mass hysteria, experiencing it, or why it is even happening to them. The top ten and bizarre cases of mass hysteria range everywhere from India, Kenya, and the United States. There were cases that involved filthy creeks to milk that they would blame for cases of mass hysteria. But when it all comes down to it the mental state of the people surrounding the mass hysteria would be the main reason of why. One of the Cases in the top ten Bizarre cases of mass hysteria was in or near the village of Kashasha on the western coast of Lake Victoria in the modern nation of Tanzania near the border of Kenya, which oddly was a laughter mass hysteria with in a school. It is believed that a group of three children had started laughing and it was uncontrollable to the point where it just really spread throughout the children, it was so disruptive that they eventually had to close the school. Laughter was not the only symptom though it was also involving pain, respitory problems, fainting, rashes, and attacks of crying. These symptoms could last from a couple hours to 16 days. There was about 60 percent of the children at the school were affected. Parents begin moving their children to area schools and towns to get them away but it just made it spread to other places than the school. They reported about 200 people were affected outside of the school. In the end of it all 14 schools were shut down and over 1000 people were afflicted. The only reasoning that they could come to was tainted food, and diagnosed the situation as mass hysteria or MPI, Mass Psychogenic Illness.

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Mosby's Medical Dictionary, 8th edition. © 2009, Elsevier.

McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.