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New Delhi. Something is happening in Iran which has surprised the whole world. Mysteriously the girls are reaching the hospital after getting sick. According to media reports, many such viral videos are continuously coming out from some big cities including Tehran, in which girl students are reaching the hospital after getting sick. However, many types of theories are coming out regarding this matter. Some reports are telling it a conspiracy while some are calling it mass hysteria. However, in the last few years many cases of mass hysteria have come to the fore. But some 100 years ago, a strange type of disease gripped Europe. In this disease, people suddenly started dying on the streets while dancing. It was named ‘Dancing Mania’.
In December last year, a girl named Mahsa had died in Iran. After this, fierce demonstrations were held across the country. Against Iran’s women’s dress code, this girl had cut her hair and removed the hijab. After some time he was arrested in Tehran. Then it was alleged that he died due to torture by the police. Since then there is a protest going on regarding the dress code. Now meanwhile the news of poisoning the girl students has come to the fore.
Accused of poisoning many schoolgirls
Concern has grown in Iran after reports emerged of hundreds of schoolgirls being poisoned in recent months. According to a CNN report, Iran’s Mehr News reported that Shaharyar Haidari, a member of parliament, citing a source, said that so far about 900 female students across the country have been poisoned. According to Iranian local media, the first poisoning incident came to light in the city of Qom on 30 November, when 18 schoolgirls from a high school were hospitalized. On February 14, in another incident in Qom, more than 100 students from 13 schools were brought to hospitals, leading to what the local media called ‘serial poisoning’.
There was a big incident in many cities of Europe
According to media reports, there was an uproar in Europe in 1374. In cities like France, Germany, Belgium, people gradually came out of their homes and offices and started gathering on the streets. Then started swinging like a hysteria patient. During this no music was played. During this the crowd used to increase instead of decreasing. People used to dance without eating or drinking. The condition was such that many people fainted and started falling, but the dance did not stop. Then it stopped as suddenly as it started with the dancing plague. No one knew the real reason behind this. During that time the plague had spread very badly. People started calling this disease dancing plague. There was such fear of this mysterious disease that many countries had banned the movement of people from other countries on their borders.
A strange disease spread among the nuns as well.
According to the reports, in the 15th century many nuns in Germany suddenly became angry. She used to make cat’s sound, used to bite and scratch each other. A similar case also came to the fore in Rome and Holland. The situation had worsened so much that the army had to be called in to control the nuns. JF Hacker has also mentioned this incident in his book ‘Epidemics of Middle Ages’.
