The village that fell asleep: Kazakhstanis hit by mystery sleeping sickness that causes them to doze for days have fluid on their brains, doctors claim

• Locals in Kalachi, north Kazakhstan say mystery illness is getting worse
• Dozens of residents regularly hit by 'sleeping epidemic' for days at a time
• Doctors have ruled out viruses and contaminated water as possible cause 
• Uranium mine near Russian town and Kazakhstan village considered cause
• Radiation at old mine shaft found to be 16 times higher than normal
• Symptoms do not match radiation poisoning while radiation levels in village have been found to be the same as normal background radiation
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  This is one of the victims of the 'sleeping epidemic' that routinely hits areas near a disused Soviet mine
  
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