{"id":13421,"date":"2024-07-13T12:35:10","date_gmt":"2024-07-13T19:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13421"},"modified":"2024-09-19T12:38:36","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T19:38:36","slug":"mystery-sleepidemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2024\/07\/13\/mystery-sleepidemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystery Sleepidemic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/03\/epidemic-caused-people-fall-asleep-months-still-dont-know-21153781\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from Metro<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">An epidemic caused people to fall asleep for months \u2013 we still don\u2019t know why<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>by <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/author\/katherine-fidler\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Katherine Fidler<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/SEC_211400996-7036.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;zoom=1&amp;resize=644%2C338\" alt=\"A sleepy sickness patient\" class=\"wp-image-21154360\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>A \u2018sleepy sickness\u2019 patient (Picture: Wellcome Library)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>One hundred years ago, across the world, people were\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/tag\/sleep\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">falling asleep<\/a>\u00a0uncontrollably.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not from a hard day\u2019s work or a late night, but a disease known as \u2018sleepy sickness\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Victims fell into a slumber so deep that those who caught it often didn\u2019t wake for weeks, or even months, at a time. It was also deadly, killing 30 to 40% of those affected, usually from respiratory failure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An epidemic, it emerged from northern\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/tag\/france\/?ico=auto_link_news_P4_LNK1\">France<\/a>\u00a0in 1916, spreading first across Europe, and then to North\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/tag\/us-news\/?ico=auto_link_news_P4_LNK2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">America<\/a>, Central America and India, before disappearing almost entirely by 1930.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/03\/epidemic-caused-people-fall-asleep-months-still-dont-know-21153781\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at Metro<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Metro An epidemic caused people to fall asleep for months \u2013 we still don\u2019t know why by Katherine Fidler One hundred years ago, across the world, people were\u00a0falling asleep\u00a0uncontrollably. Not from a hard day\u2019s work or a late night, but a disease known as \u2018sleepy sickness\u2019. Victims fell into a slumber so deep that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}